All language subtitles for Maigret S01E06 Liberty Bar_Track03-eng

{suspenseful music)

- Gina, I'm so worried, dear.

What about the car?

You know, you haven't driven very much

Do you think you can manage?

- I don't know, but what else can we do?

We'll have to risk it.

Now, Mama, are we ready?

- I don't know, dear

I really don't know.

- Oh, let's go, Mama

For heaven's sake, let's go

{suspenseful music)

- Gina, Gina, look

- I know.

(car engine roars)
{suspenseful music)

(tyres screeching)

{suspenseful music)

Ohl

(seagulls squawking)

{suspenseful music)

Come an, come on, we'll have to walk

- Oh, dear

- Come on.
- All right

- Hurry, Mother, hurry!

Come on, for heaven's sake

Hurry!
- I'm coming!

(suspenseful music)
(seagulls squawking)

{suspenseful music)

- Hey!

{suspenseful music)

(shovels scraping)

{dramatic music builds)

("Maigret Theme" - Ron Grainer)

- Ah, there you are

Did you see what you wanted?

- Yes.

- [Boutigues] ¥What do you make of it?

- Very peculiar

- It's a pity it had to happen here.

- Hmm?

- If you could see the other villas.

Wealth, taste, luxury

- Is that him?

- [Boutigues] Yes

- What was he, this William Brown?

- [Boutigues] Australian,
He kept some good liqueurs

- I mean, what did he do for a living?

- [Boutigues] Well, nothing,
he must've had private means.

- Anything in this
Secret Service business?

- You've seen the local papers.

He worked for the Deuxieme
Bureau during the war

- Well, do you think
there's anything in it?

- We'll find out.

It did have to happen at
the beginning of the season

That was why we wanted it hushed up

- Not hushed up, cleared up

- My instructions are that the case

should require tactical handling

- So I've come 600 miles to be tactful.

I wonder why.

- You'll find things easy here

Sunshine, flowers, beautiful women

On the Riviera, we live and let live

- William Brown was murdered.

- Yes.

Curacao?

Chartreuse?

He was stabbed right in
the middle of the back

and bled to death.

But perhaps you'd prefer scotch

- Scotch, how long did he last?

- Dirty.

Well, the women swear
that he drove home here

and then walked to the
door before he died.

- With the knife in his back?

- Without a knife in this back.

Water, soda”?

- Neat.

- These two women, he lived
with them for 10 years

They kept him in the
house for three days dead,

in this weather.

Then they buried him in
the garden and ran off.

- You sent for them?

- They're on their way.

They can't explain why
they kept him lying stiff

on the divan there for all that time.

The only explanation that
I can see is that they were

too refined to notice a
corpse in the drawing room

{doorbell rings)

Oh, damnation there they come

Another scotch.

Well you'll need it for this couple

The daughter reeks of scent.

It knocks you sideways

Come in, ladies

All right, thank you.

You can wait.

- Will no one introduced us?

- Chief inspector Maigret is from Paris

- Such manners.

Inspector

This is my daughter, Gina,

poor dear William's wife

- You've come all the way from Paris

to save us from these dreadful police

- They actually arrested us,

as if we would ever have
hurt poor dear Williams

- Inspector Maigret will understand

Poor William came back to die in my arms

- Putting us in a very awkward position

- Yes, will you sit down please?

- I'll leave you to it.

- Perhaps you'd care to
walt outside on the balcony”?

- Gladly

- Well now, what sort of
a man was he to live with?

- William was an ideal husband.

- Yes, we all sat
together in the evenings

- William sat there?

- Yes.

- What did you do?

- Well I did my embroidery.

- I'm very fond of reading.

- What did William do?

- [Gina] Nothing

Oh, he just liked being with us.

- You mean to say, you just sat here

like this every evening for 10 years”

- Sometimes we listened to the radio.

- William liked to spend
all his time at home.

The odd thing is you're
rather like William.

Don't you think so, Mama™

- [Mama] I noticed it
myself as soon as I saw him.

{Maigret coughs)

- Do you mind”?

- Not at all.

- Poor dear William
sometimes used to smoke pipe

- Yes, well let's talk about
last Saturday, shall we?

What time did he come home?

- He drove home about five

and staggered up the path as if he--

- Shh, Gina

- As if he was drunk?

Then what happened?

- I called out from the window

that he could come in when he'd sobered up

- Splendid, you've convinced
me of your innocence

- Oh, thank you

- Oh, Inspector, I knew you'd save us

- Just a moment, Madame,

give me a few more honest answers

and perhaps he won't go back to prison

- Anything, Inspector

- Anything rather than that.

- Did he often come home drunk?

- Only when he went to get the money.

On the first of every month

- Saturday was the fifth

- Well the fact is,

we haven't been quite
frank with you, Inspector

- [Maigret] Oh?

- Our natural desire not
to speak ill of the dead

- He always stayed away when
he went to get the money

- For how long?

- Two or three days, sometimes more.

- Otherwise, he never left us

- Where'd he get this money from?

- He wouldn't tell us.

He wasn't very conversational about money.

- Didn't you ever try to find out?

- Well, I followed him once or twice

He put his car in a garage
in Cannes and then vanished,

until he came home here sodden with drink.

- Yes, with barely enough
money to last us a month

- When he fell through the door dying,

why didn't you get the police?

- Well, it was a question of property.

- William and I were
not precisely married

- It's been most unfortunate,
but he already had a wife

- In Australia, she could
have claimed the house

and everything in it.

- And a lot of the
furniture belonged to me

We knew there was a will.

- Leaving everything to me

- But we couldn't find it.

- I see.

Well if you wanted the
house, why did you run away?

- I admit we were foolish.

- And we just panicked

You see, we'd taken it for granted

that William had been stabbed
in some drunken brawl

- And then we had a terrible thought.

Supposing he vas still
mixed up with spying

- They might think he was still alive

and we were guarding him.

- Two defenceless women.

- So you buried him in the garden?

- Well, what else could we do?

- Did you look in his pockets?

- Yes, we found very little,.

Some money, about 500 francs.

- What else?

- Only rubbish

- Will you get it for me please”

Will you help her, Madame?

- Everything we took away was
our own property, Inspector

- [Maigret] I understand perfectly

- You know, he wasn't my
idea of a complete gentleman

Sometimes he wore his pyjamas for days.

He even drove me to the village in them

Oh, it was most embarrassing

I think he only did it to annoy us

(Maigret laughs)

- Boutigues!

- [Boutigues] Finished?

- No.

Hmm!

(laughs) He sounds quite a
character, this William Brown

- That woman's scent.

- Hmm, how the devil could he put up

with those two for 10 years?

10 years!

Endless evenings

Mother with her needlework,

daughter with her pulp magazines,

nothing but the radio
to relieve the monotony

- [Boutigues] The tame lapdog

- Apparently, he looked a little like me.

Sure, it seems he had
his day now and then

- This is all we've got.

- Thank you, will you put them there?

(coins tinkling)

Did William ever take you to
a cafe with slot machines?

- We would never enter any such place

- Thank you, ladies.

Will you walt in the other room?

- Are you letting them go?

- Yes.

- What have you got there?

- They found them in his pockets.

- But slot machines were
made illegal months ago,

you won't find one on the Riviera

- Well, I can but try.

Tell the ladies they can stay here

I'll be in touch.

{gentle accordion music)

(car engine roars)

{gentle accordion music)

(car engine roars)

{footsteps pattering)

{gentle accordion music)

{door creaks)

{machine cranks)

- I'm Ja Ja.

Fat Ja Ja, you'll call me

Where are you from?

- Paris.

Criminal justice

- It's about William?

Come onin.

I knews one of you lot
would get here in the end

I told you, Yan, they're
taking William seriously

This is Yan, he's a good boy

You don't mind if we go on eating?

Eat up, Yan

Doesn't understand a word.

He's Swedish.

Oh, and this is Sylvie,
Willlam's goddaughter,

but not in a religious way.

I'll make some more salad.

He eats a lot, this Yan

- Do you live here?

- Sometimes she does, and
sometimes she doesn't.

- What does she do?

- Well now, Inspector (laughs)

She's a good girl

Have you had your dinner?

- Yes.

- If you haven't, just speak up

We don't stand on ceremony here

At least you'll have a glass of wine?

Fetch a glass for the inspector, Sylvie

William took to her.

She used to tell him all her troubles.

It's been a great blow.

- Was there ever anything
between William and her?

- Never.

It's not true.

What's it got to do with you anyhow?

- Now, now, Sylvie

The inspector meant no harm.

Sit down and get on with your dinner

Well.

-l go.

- Come back later, Yan,
we'll have a good dinner.

- Yeah.

- He's very quiet

He's from a yacht.

He brought us the meat.

Well, here's good health

This is some of William's whiskey

Would you like a drop?

- [Sylvie] I'm going to get dressed

- That's a good girl

She's too thin.

William used to worry about her

- Did she first come here with William?

- Oh no, she's only been here two years

She came down from Paris for the season.

She was sitting in the
corner, crying, poor kid

She didn't have enough money for a bed

So [ took her in.

- Does she bring her customers here?

- Oh no, never

There are plenty of hotels in Cannes

She just stayed on because
she's a friend, that's all

- How long have you known William?

- Since his rich days

And the way he used to
throw his money around!

- How'd he lose his money?

- I never asked.

I'm not the worrying sort.

- Was he here last week?

- For two or three days

- Well, did he spend much money here”?

- Money?

Oh he'd do a little shepping

Maybe buy a few drinks
or settle the gas bill

- Did he seem sad?

- Sad?

You couldn't say that.

We like to take it easy here.

We like a little talk, a little drink

and maybe a little cry

- Tell me about Saturday

- He left about two
o'clock, just after lunch

- Two?

He didn't arrive in his
own house until five.

- You know you look just
like William sitting there

- What did you do when he went?

- Oh, it was a hot day

Sleepy.

I just sat here

My eyes kept closing.

I must've slept for hours

Poor William.

- Did he say where he was going”?

- Never asked.

We don't ask questions here

Are you off now, dear”?

- When did you leave on Saturday?

- She left 10 minutes before William.

- Where'd you ga?

- What a question

- Down to the harbour?

- There, anywhere,

And now, if you don't mind

- Hello, Ja Ja

- This is Giovani.

He's a waiter at the casino.

- Hello.

- Giovani, don't you think

the inspector looks like William?

- You knew William Brown?

- Little bit.

- Oh now, now, Giovani

We've all had drinks together.

Not that Giovani ever gets drunk.

- I just dropped in to pass on a tip

- So you back horses?

- Now and then.

I'll come back later.

- He'll lose.

He always does

It's very hard on Sylvie,
poor kid, but he's a good boy

And a girl has to have a friend

We all need friends.

William and I have seen a lot together

I'm gonna miss him, poor William

Will you have another drink?

- Sorry, Ja Ja, I've gotta go.

- Well, drop in again anytime

- Mm-hm.

{door closes)

- That's enough. Ja Ja

- What do you know about it?

William and I were the same kind.

You wouldn't understand.
(soft dramatic music)

- [Maigret] Anything known?

- [Dier] She's never caused any trouble

She uses the half-hour hotels.

- [Maigret] Would you
get me a list of them”?

- [Dier] Certainly, sir

- What do you know about Liberty Bar?

- Oh, funny place that.

Kept us guessing for quite a while

At one time we thought Ja Ja
might be trading in drugs

but there was nothing like that

- Quite harmless?

- Oh yes

Old mother Ja Ja has an
irresistible attraction

for a certain type

- Older man who've seen it all?

- Yes, that's about it

Now they just want to sit,
and drink and reminisce.

- What do you know about
Sylvie's boyfriend, Giovani

- Oh, we know all about him

We keep an eye on him because
he's always at the races,

but we've got nothing on him, no record.

- Ah, my dear Maigret, there you are

I thought you got lost
in our beautiful town

I've got news for you, but first,

do you want to see the corpse”?

- No.

- Dier?

- [Dier] Sir?

- Get down to the Antibes police mortuary,

tell them they can screw down the coffin.

- Very good, sir.

- His son has turned up

- William Brown has a son?

- Three sons and a wife in Australia.

- [Boutigues] They grow wool

They have a sheep station
about the size of France.

We're all probably wearing
some of Brown's sheep

- Well, what about this
son who's turned up?

- He's Harry Brown

He's the one at this end.

He's from Antibes,

from Hamburg, from Liverpool

He collects wool from ships

- What did he say about his father?

- He rings every hour to say,
"how quick" and "how much?"

- He wants a fast funeral?

- The hearse has to be at the
mortuary at seven o'clock

Seven o'clock tomorrovw morning

That's so that nobody can come.

- Then he'll be unlucky

- [Boutigues] Are you going
to tell the Martine women?

- You can tell the Martines.

I want to see them there.

William had friends in Cannes.

He was one of the family.

Must all come and pay their [ast respects.

- [Boutigues] The Martine women

were obviously not in his class

- No, they're much too
refined for William.

- Where's Harry Brown now”?

- [Boutigues] He's taken a
suite of rooms at Juan-les-Pins.

- The hotel?

- [Boutigues] Le Provencal.

{door knocks)

Can you get this across to
the Liberty Bar right away?

That's for Fat Ja Ja.

- Yes, sir

- Thank you

Well, how do I get to Juan-les-Pins”?

- [Boutigues] By car, of course

- Oh, by the way, there
was a character called Yan

when I got to Liberty Bar.

Find out what he was doing
on Saturday afternoon

- Right.

- Excuse me, sir, do you want the list?

It's nearly finished

- I'l pick it up tomorrow

If I have time.

If I still need it.

- Will you see the
inspector now, Mr. Brown?

- All right, all right, Harris.

- Very good, sir.
{phone rings)

- 750 bales.

- Hold the line a moment, please

Mr. Brown will see the
inspector right away.

Hello?

Yes, yes, put them through

Excuse me, sir, Stockholm
coming on the line again

- Yes, that's block 30.

We was still have no information.

Tell them I'll call within 24 hours.

- [Harris] Very goed, sir

- Dock Strike continues to Thursday

Pending shipments will need re-routing

Investigate availability
shipping directed to Naples

{door knocks)

- Would you come in, sir?

Excuse me, sir.

Chief Inspector Maigret to see you, sir

- Yes, all right, show him in!

-Heis in, sir.

- Oh, yes

All right, I can give him five minutes

Very good, sir

Mr Brown will give you five minutes sir.

- Forecast there to stand at block 30.

Last to Sweden needs
immediate confirmation.

- Mr. Brown?

- Do sit down, will you

Excuse me.

Negotiation Stockholm at stand still

until this information is to hand.

Get that off at once, will you?

- Yes, sir

- Excuse me if I seem busy.

I'm leaving tomorrow.
(typewriter clacks)

Well, this is an annoying affair

- Positively

It's always annoying

to find a knife between
your shoulder blades

(typewriter clacks)

- Type that out in the next
room, Harris, will you?

No calls through here for a moment

- Very good, sir.

- I'd better tell you the facts,

because if you don't
understand the situation

you may put your foot in it

- That must be avoided at all costs.

- Yes.

Can I offer you a drink?

- Thank you

- My father's caused us a lot of trouble

Now that he's dead,

we don't want it all stirred up again

But if you think we kicked him out

and left them to rot over here

because of some family
quarrel, you're wrong

- Water, please

- What?

Oh.

It wasn't like that at all.

- How was it?

- He left us.

Came to Paris years
ago on a business trip

Up to then he'd been a perfectly normal,

hardworking wool merchant

France ruined him.

- Really?

- He never came back.

Left my mother alone

with one of the largest
sheep stations in Australia

- Well, the business
seems to have survived.

- Only because she and my uncle

managed to take affairs out of his hands.

It was the only thing we
could do to stop him spending

The amount of money he'd simply
thrown away was fantastic

- I believe he bought a yacht?

- Yes.

Must have flittered it on champagne.

Gambled away thousands at the casinos

Then there were girls from nightclubs

Seemed to have lost all sorts of dignity

We needn't go into details

- So, you cut off his source of supply

and made him an allowance?

- [Mr. Brown] Yes

- How much?

- It was paid into a bank in Cannes

£100 a month.

- Only 1500 new Francs

- If we'd given him anymore,

he'd have gone on throwing it away.

- Suppose he got fed up

and decided to go back to Australia?

- From time to time he'd write

and threatened to come back,

just to annoy us

That's sort of man he was.

- Yes.

- He never meant it.

He was completely soaked
in the French way of life,

at the lowest level of course.

- He'd gone native

- [Mr. Brown] Exactly

And the worst of it is

I'm pretty sure that he enjoyed it.

- Extraordinary

- Well inspector, I did say five minutes

I'm sure you would appreciate

that I have a great deal to do

- One more question, Mr. Brown

Where were you on Saturday
between two and five o'clock?

- Saturday”?

I was in Marseille.

- You didn't see your father on that day”?

- I haven't seen him for years

- Hmm.

Thank you, Mr. Brown.

We shall meet again.

At the funeral.

Fine time for a funeral.

- Yes, but look what we've got

- Morning, everyone

You haven't seen these people before?

- No, who are they?

- Mourners.

- Well, we don't want them at our funeral

- Is there time for Sylvie

to get some flowers from the market?

- [Maigret] Yes, she's got time

- Why didn't we think of that?

We have some lovely flowers in the garden

- These the women he lived with?

Poor William.

(Ja Ja tuts)

- Did you find out anything about Yan?

- Yes, I've two messages from Cannes

The Swede is a steward on a large yacht

and he was not aboard
on Saturday afternoon

We have a list of the
half-hour hotels for you

And are you checking on the girl?

- I have to make a start somewhere.

I'll take William's
photograph along as well.

- But she's not his type.

She's too undernourished.

- Just the same.

It needs looking in to

Here's Brown.

(soft organ music begins)

Morning

- Half-past-seven

Everything ready?

- Yes, yes.

Have you met these ladies?

- Madame Martine and Georgina.

- So, you're William's son”?

- And this is Fat Ja Ja.

- Oh, I knew your father well.

- Oh good, you got the flowers

Another of your father's friends

Watch carefully

One of them killed him.

{dramatic organ music)

- Well?

{gentle accordion music)

- Double or single?

- Police.

You had that man staying here?

- Might have, might not

Don't look at their faces.

- Can I see the register?

- Oh, its hopeless

Hotel incognito, that's what we are

- What about this girl?

- Oh dear, yes

She's upstairs

Room seven.

Monsieur and Madame La Roche.

Albert?

- Yeah?

- Number seven, have they ordered drinks?

- No, nothing at all

- They won't be long then.

- If you'd like a drink
while you're waiting

there's a little cafe down--

- I'm a police officer

- Even police are human

- I thought he was that chap

who was here the other day

You remember?

The crazy fellow who
brought in all the flowers

- Just a minute.

Is this the man that looked like me?

Man with the flowers?

- I couldn't say.

- What does that mean?

- I'm not sure.

- Was the man with the
flowers here with Sylvie?

- I couldn't say.

You'd better ask her.

- Well, when was he here?

Come on, was it Saturday?

- I don't remember.

- What about you?

Do you remember?

Where's the nearest flower shop?

- One in the corner.

- Mademoiselle?

- Ohl

Give it to me!

- What's wrong?

- I've got to go!

- I think you'd better sit down

- Who's your boyfriend?

Giovani?

I saw him hanging around
just before the funeral,

but I missed him afterwards.

Did he come here to meet you?

- No, nol

- Call police headquarters,
Inspector Boutigues

- You wanna use handcuffs?

- Hello.

Police, police?

You'll have to pay for the call

I've got to keep accounts,
same as anyone else

- Police headquarters”

Hotel Beau Sejour, here.

Yes. I am calling you

Inspector Boutigues.

Just a minute.

- Boutigues™?

Maigret.

Brown is leaving today.

He must be stopped

I don't care, tell him anything you like,

but he's not to leave.

- That's 75 centimes.

- Open your bag, Sylvie

- No!

- That's a lot of money

An awful lot of money.

{suspenseful music)

- It wasn't a nice funeral, Yan

- Not?

- I tried to cry, but
the tears would not come.

I'm not built for funerals anymore

Oh, you savvy, Yan?

- Feet?

- Ankles.

Pour me another drink, there's a good boy

- Yeah.

- You again?

Clear out.

I sai
id"
clear out"!

- Sorry, Yan, come back later.

- Sit down.

- 20,000 Francs

- Oh no, my poor Sylvie

- She got it from Harry Brown.

Now, what have you got to say?

- Nothing.

- I'm waiting

- You can wait all day, you dirty brute!

- What have you got to say”?

- Oh, now, why don't we all have a drink

and make friends again?

- What do you know about this”?

- Just nice crisp notes?

- She wouldn't earn that in a year

Today she got it in 20 minutes.

Explain it

- Maybe he took a fancy
to her at the funeral.

So, you're not going yet?

- No.

- How long will you be staying?

- Until one or other of you talks

Or maybe until someone else
comes in for the share out

- You'll feel better
when you've had a drink

- I'l have a clean glass

- Hello, Ja Ja
- Shh!

- In the kitchen, now!

- [Sylvie] Don't tell
him anything Giovani!

- I have nothing just to tell.

I'm sorry, sir.

- You can thank her for the money.

- Money?

- Yeah she got it for you

- What's the matter?
- Sit down

Where've you come from?

- Been to get my identity card renewed

You're an the Italian?

- Born in Milano.

- Where did you first meet Harry Brown”

- Who is he?

- William's Son.
- Be quiet!

Now listen Ambrosini.

I suppose you'll admit
to being Sylvie's lover?

- Depends what you mean

- Come on, come on

You are what's politely
known as "her protector"

What hold have you got on Harry Brown”

- I suppose she did it for the money

She's pretty enough, ha?

- Now why don't we all have a little drink

and stop this argument.
- Try again

(clock ticks)

I'll give you exactly 30 seconds

to tell me how you got the money

(clock ticks)

{doer thumps)

- Anybody in?
- What do you want?

- I want some beer.

- They don't sell beer in this bar.

{drunkard mumbles)
(chair clatters)

Anything you've got to say to me”?

Say it direct me.

Well?

(clock ticks)

- Fine.

I'm arresting you.

And you

- Not Ja Ja, she knows nothing!

I swear, she doesn't!

- You're not taking Sylvie!
- Come on

- Not my little Sylvie!

- Goodbye, Ja Ja

- No, no, Sylvie! (cries)

No, no!

Sylvie!

- But, Mr. Brown's been trying

to contact Inspector
Boutigues for some hours, now

Surely, you have some
idea when he'll be back

- Give that to me.

Give those to Wright to type those out

Give her the general layout
and then get backed up

- Very good, sir
- This is Brown.

Now look here.

I have extremely urgent
business in Berlin.

It's essential that I
catch the evening plane.

These papers about my father's house,

can't they be sent on to me?

Why on earth should I wait here

until they are prepared?

{door knocks)
Come in!

This is nonsense.

Will you kindly tell
Inspector, Boutigues is it,

that I shall be leaving tonight?

What do you want?

"Stopped at the airport"?

Sit down, Madame.

On what grounds?

This is preposterous

Will you tell Inspector
Boutigues to call me

the moment he has returns?

(phone slams)

- Now, Madame, what can I do for you?

- I have come, but I don't know--

- You've come to tell me about my father?

No. no, not William

I have a message

A message from Giovani

He's a good boy.

- Giovani?

- Sylvie's boyfriend.

Oh, he spends a little money on the races,

but if the money doesn't go one way,

it goes the other

- You have a message”?

- Giovani says, but then
he only had the moment,

he said, if I told you, you'd get him out

- Out?

Of where?

- [Ja Ja] They put him in prison

- Really?

- He said, if I told
you, you would help him

You know why.

- I'm afraid, there's nothing I can do.

- But, they put Sylvie in prison tool

- Would you allow me to
send you home by taxi?

- He said he didn't
want to tell the police

about, you know what.

- Have you come here to blackmail me”?

- [Ja Ja] What?

- [Mr. Brown] Didn't you get
enough money out of my father?

- You!

Youl

- Why did she come?

- To get her friends out of prison

- You took her girl to the Beau Sejour

- I suppose we call it "an indiscretion”

- You gave her 20,000 francs.

Now you refuse to help her.

- Yes.

- Why?

- This is what I bought for 20,000 francs

My father's will.

- Oh.

Who had it?

- Soon after the funeral,
a man came to see me.

I gather his name was Giovani.

He shoved me a copy and he
said I could buy the original

if I went to a certain hotel in Cannes.

- How did Giovani get it?

- He stole it.

When my father was drunk

- When your father was murdered,

you bought it back again

- It was my duty to do so

- I thought your father
had nothing to leave?

- The will only had nuisance value.

The property belongs to my mother

Factually, it belongs to my mother

- And legally?

- Legally, there's a
faint shadow of a doubt.

He was still fighting for what
he claimed were his rights

He knew he couldn't win,

so he took advantage of
the situation to annoy us

He hired shady lawyers
to keep the dispute open,

sent the bills to us, of course

- (laughs) His death must
have been a relief to you

- Yes.

If he'd had the decency to
die without making a will.

We've stood a lot.

And now, do you see who he's left

his non-existent fortune to?

- Martine,

Gina,

Ja Ja, Sylviel

- [Mr. Brown] These appalling women

- (laughs) All four of them
turning up in Australia

Sylvie, Ja Ja--

- [Mr. Brown] With their
absurd claims on our property

We shall be laughed out of the country.

- Your father meant it as a joke

- Exactly

An unpleasant and embarrassing joke

It's typical of him

- Tell me, Is it legal in
Australia to destroy a will?

- It's not my habit in any
country, to break the law

I haven't destroyed the will.

It's in your hands

You may do as you think fit,

but [ assure you that, in the end,

the Brown--
- The Brown family will win

- Yes.

- Are you prepared to swear on Earth

that you've never seen this will

until after your father's death?

- Yes.

I've never met any of these
dreadful people before

I hope I never do again.

- Right.

Was your father fond of flowers”

Sorry, stupid question

- I beg your pardon, sir

- It's all right, I'm just going

- Cancel my flight.

I thought we were finished here.

Now, I'm not so sure.

- But, are you sure that William Brown

bought the flowers at that shop?

- Pretty sure.

But, anyway, I want those women there.

- Right.

Dier?
- Sir?

- Get down to Liberty Bar.

Take Ja Ja to Inspector Maigret

at the flower shop on the corner

I'll collect the Martine
women and see you there.

- Very good, sir.

{suspenseful music)

- Thank you, Madame

Thank you very much

- Oh, good evening, Monsieur

You want some flowers?

- Some help, Madame.

Has this man ever bought flowers here?

- I remember.

He was so nice.

- When did he buy them?

- I think it was last Saturday.

Last Saturday afternoon

He bought a lot of flowers,

and one like this for his buttonhole.

It looked so strange

Some clothes do not suit a buttonhole,

and some do.
- Thank you

- You like it?

You shall have it.

- Was anyone with him?

- No.

- Did you see anyone waiting for him?

- No, I imagine she was
waiting in the hotel

- Beau Sejour?

- Yes.

You see, he was so nice

I went to the door to watch him go

You can see the hotel from here.

He crossed the road and I saw him going

- Was anyone else watching him™

- Oh, yes

There were quite a few people about.

- Women?

- Yes.

- Nowy, can you describe any of them?

- Well, I do not seem
to notice women so much.

- What about this girl?

- No, I do not remember seeing her

in the street at the time
you're talking about

- ['ve asked for some other
women to be brought here

I'd like you to tell me if
you can recognise any of them

- Well, it is very late, but
I will keep open for you

- You're very patient, Madame

- Here.

When I did this for him

he looked as if he wanted to kiss me.

That is happiness

You know, you look a little like him.

- Do you know this man?

- Giovani Ambrosini.

- He's not the type I remember
if I notice him about

I'm sorry.

{people talking)

- There here.

Take a good look.

Good evening, ladies

- Oh, Inspector, what
a charming rendezvous

- Inspector Maigret.

- Forgive me for bringing you all this way

to ask you one question

When William came home on Saturday,

was he wearing a buttonhole”

- William never wore
buttonhole in his life.

He wasn't the type

- Thank you

Would you care to choose
yourself some flowers?

- Inspector, you're too kind.

- Itis very difficult, I do not know

- Take a closer look.

- will.

- Did you get anything out of Giovani?

- Not yet.

- She doesn't know anything.

You'd better get back to
headquarters and work on him

- And Sylvie?

- Leave Sylvie to me

I'll get rid of the Martines

and I'll join you at headquarters.

- Where's Ja Ja?

- She's not there.

- Drinking her way across Cannes, is she?

- Come on.

- Inspector, I do hope we
haven't been too extravagant

- How much, Madame?

- I will soon tell you

(gentle music)

- Nothing to add?

- No.

- Have this typed up, get him to sign it

and take him away

- Come on.

- Any luck”?

- Yes.

- He admits to meeting Harry Brown

and stealing the will
when William was drunk.

- How did he know about it.

- They were at Ja Ja's,

celebrating William's
birthday a month ago

William started talking about the will,

he pulled it out and waved it around

- When did Giovani steal it?

Last Friday

He says he wanted a copy
just for information

than to just slip it back,

But William was killed the next day

Very conveniently

- Did Ja Ja know he'd stolen it?

- No, neither did Sylvie according to him

- I can't make Sylvie out

- Did you get anything out of her?

Well, did she admit meeting
William at the hotel,

or that flower business?

- She admits nothing, she
just sits there like a stone

- You know, my guess is that Harry Brown,

hearing of the will,
suggested killing William

He obviously hated his father.

And then Sylvie acted as a
decoy to get him to the spot,

and then Giovanni did the deed

and Harry was told to take
the money to the hotel

- I can't see Harry Brown facing blackmail

for the rest of his life.

- Then Sylvie and Giovani

must've hatched it up between them

Killed William, got hold of the will

and then approached Harry Brown

- It looks like it, but
William was one of the family

- Suppose Giovani was jealous”

Sylvie went off with
William, Giovani follows,

he kills him in a in a fit of jealous rage

and then threatens to involve Sylvie

unless she keeps her mouth shut

- I don't think Giovanni

was passionately in love with Sylvie.

She was more in love with him.

- Then what's the answer.

- Ja Ja is the only one
who can make Sylvie talk

- Shall we fetch Ja Ja then?

- No.

I'll go over there. see if she's got back

Tell them to release Sylvie
and bring her back home

Give me time to get there first.

- Right.

- Ja Ja feet bad, walking bad

- Yes, Ja Ja's walked a lot today

What about last Saturday?

Where were you last Saturday
between two and five?

- Here.

Alone.

Everybody go

- Alone?

Ja Ja wasn't here on Saturday?

- No.

{metal scrapes)
(wood thumps)

- I don't know what I'm doing.

I must have a glass

Two glasses.

- You'd better lie down for a minute.

- Ohl

- Is this where William slept?

- On the divan.

There was nowhere else.

- And Sylvie?

- If she was here, she came in with me

- Ja Ja, are you sure that William

wasn't in love with Sylvie”?

- Oh, he was fond of Sylvie

He was fond of,

I don't want to talk about it.

- About what?

- I must have a drink, I really must.

- Not yet.

- Oh, my poor Sylvie

What is the name of that
prison they've taken her to”?

They say you can't talk.

You can't even-- (cries)

- But you're not going there, are you?

It's Sylvie who--

- Sylvie, no, not Sylvie

William and I kept a bottle

- What else did you keep in there?

- Nothing!

- They're Williams, I kept them

- You loved William, didn't you”

- We got on

We were the same kind.

- Didn't you?

- He loved me!

- Where did you get this?

{Ja Ja sobs)

- [Sylvie] Ja Ja!

- Help me

- She's ill.

- Get a doctor, right away

- Where did you get that?

I thought it was--

Oh, Ja Ja

No, no!

- It's all your fault!

You stole him from me.

Oh, Sylvie,

how could you?
- It's not true!

It's not what she thinks.

- I never suspected anything

Making up to my face and
then behind my back--

- It only happened once

because he kept on asking me--

- I saw the look you gave him
when he went out of the room!

Even then, I couldn't leave

- So you followed him?

- He bought her flowers

- 1 didn't want them!

I didn't want him!

- Giovani was good enough for her,

but she had to have William too.

- It's not true, I must
make her understand.

When I did give in, I didn't
want Giovanni to know.

I was afraid to take advantage of it

- I bought a knife

I knew he was going home

- Where did you wait for him?

- Outside the town.

He opened the car door, and I said,

"There's flowers for youl".

And he said, "Sorry Ja Ja",

and he tock the knife out, handed it to me

and said, "Throw it away".

Then he got me the only flower

he had left, from his buttonhole,

got in the car, and drove away

(cries) all over the road

- We'll have to get her to hospital.

- Ch no, she'll live to die in prison

- Get her some water.

(glasses tinkling)

Poor old thing

- Is she?

Did she forgive me?

- With her last breath.

- She didn't.

Didn't.

{melancholy music)
Ja Ja?

Oh, Ja Jal

- Are you lunching here or on the train?

- On the train.

Harry Brown's offering to buy
the ladies out of the lawsuit

50,000 francs

- Very handsome

- "To each of the four."

He doesn't know yet, there's only three

- What shall we tell him?

- You can tell him a fat old woman

killed his father for love.

Won't worry him.

He thinks love and jealousy
are exclusively French