All language subtitles for Maigret S01E11 The Experts_Track03-eng

{suspenseful music)

- Inspector Lognon here

My suspect has just
entered the Cafe Tabac.

I propose to make the arrest.

If you have a van free,

will you please send it to
the corner of Rue Chateaudun

and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette,

in five minutes' time.

Yes. Thank you

{suspenseful music)

(tyres squealing)

(gun firing)

(crowd chattering)

General call, step American saloon,

number 7417 FT 47.

Hold occupants for questioning, and-

{ominous music)

(tyres squealing)

(dramatic music)

{suspenseful music)

{ominous music)

{soft music)

- Is that you, Legnon™

Why don't you answer”?

Come in here at once!

Where have you been?

I've had to lock everything
up myself. (shrieking)

- Quiet, Madame. Where is your husband?

What does he do?

Come on, come on, tell me

Look, lady, you better talk

Where is your husband?

Eh. we'll soon find out
Check In the other room.

- That's this?

- To Inspector Charles Marie Lognon,

in recognition of 25 years police service.

He's a cop

Come on.

And not a sound cut of you

- [Lucas] Ah, Patron

Good morning.
- Morning, Lucas

- I just heard the case against Bellamy

is down for next Thursday.

- Good, well, we're all settled aren't we?

- Yes, indeed.
(phone ringing)

- [Maigret] Good, I'd like
to see that fellow tidy away.

- Chief Inspector Maigret's office, Lucas

Yes, Madame, he's here

Just a moment.

Madame Lognon, for you

- Lognon?

- What a way to start the day.

- Hello, Madame, Maigret here

Yes, Madame, but your husband
isn't even under my orders

He's in the ninth district.

- I am aware of that, Inspector,

and I'm very well aware

But while you have received the
promotion which is your due

my husband pays the penalty
for being overconscientious,

but to whom else can I appeal”?

His station knows nothing

He's been absent for 36 hours,

and I myself am menaced by gangsters

who penetrate into my very bedroom!

Inspector Maigret. I appeal to you

- Well, naturally, Madame,

I'll do all that [ can to help you

Gangsters, you say?

Will you give me a
description of these men?

{someone knocking)

Short, powerfully built,
with a scar? Yes, tall

It's your wife, do you
want to speak to her?

Yes, Madame I see

Well, I think you can rest assured

that your husband is not very far away,

and that he will be in
touch with you shortly

Yes, meantime, I shall see that a guard

is placed on your flat

Goodbye, Madame

- I've done that already

- [Maigret] What else, Lognon™

- I've come to make a full confession.

I've nothing to conceal

You can do just as you please.

- I'm sorry, Patron, the
Van Sant holdup report

- [Maigret] Oh, yes. Oh, I
don't think you know Lapointe.

Inspector Lognon of the ninth district.

- Hows do you do, Inspector?

- Sub-inspector

- [Maigret] Lapointe is my newest recruit

- First-class diploma, no doubt.

Hand-picked, I'm sure

We have to take what we
are sent in the districts.

- Well, they all have
to be licked into shape

All right, Lapointe

Now, Lognon, will you tell me?

- So September the 15th,
about two nights ago,

I was on duty.

- Who is he?

- Lognon?

A terrible warning

That's what comes to being overzealous,

too keen to do everything yourself.

He and the Patron joined the
force about the same time.

He feels he should be
in the Patron's place

- Ooh, glad he isn't.

- You can say that again

We call him Old Umbrage

I wonder hows long he's gonna be?

- Then when you found
that the body had gone?

- I commenced my investigations

- Well, I haven't had the report yet

- Report? There is no report.

I made no report

I had the numbers of the cars,

so I proceeded to investigate.

Oh yes, I'm aware of the rule

that all murder cases should be reported

10 the Quai des Crfevres.

I know it, and I disobeyed it

- Why?

- I wanted to solve the case myself.

I am ready for the disciplinary tribunal

- Oh, my dear Lognon, please sit down

- It's in your power to
suspend me from duty

- It's in your power to tell
me a little more about this.

Now, who were these men
who visited your flat?

- I think they were the
occupants of the first car

- [Maigret] Why do you think so?

- Well, I've checked on both cars

Now, the second car was stolen

outside the Folies
Bergere in the Rue Richer

- [Maigret] No lead there

- No, but the first car was hired

from a garage in the Etoile district

- Self-drive?
- Yes.

Hired by Mr. William Lamer,
a tall, dark-haired American

- Hmm. You see these
descriptions of the men?

- Yes, on way here. That's why I came.

- William Larner. Very well then

We might have the name of one of them.

Good. Anything else”?

- Yes, Larner has been living
in France for two years

The Hotel de Wagram, Avenue de Wagram

Early yesterday morning he
left the hotel suddenly,

about four o'clock.

- [Maigret] Paying his bill?

- No, no. He was going to visit a friend

in the garden in Ore

- What about the other two?

- Ch, no trace

- Where have you looked?

- All the hotels in the Etoile district.

- What makes you think these are the men

that came to your flat?

- Well, you see, I've been working it out.

They must've seen me when
they nearly ran me down

Surely they would have expected a report

in yesterday's morning's paper
of the discovery of the body

When they didn't find one,

they naturally were worried, puzzled

They wondered if the number
of the car had been taken

So they keep an eye on the garage.

When they see me go there,

they recognise my face and follow me home

- Oh, you have been home”?

- Yes. Yesterday morning,
after the garage

Before I went to the hotel.

My wife wanted some shopping done

She finds the stairs difficult.

- So having delivered the shopping,

you then went out again
to the Hotel Wagram

- Yes, after some
conversation with my wife

Of course, they saw me go into the hotel

And that night they decided
to find out who I was.

- Where were you last night?

- On duty

I did not neglect my routine tasks

- No, of course

- I hope that will be remembered for me

in front of the tribunal.

- Oh, blast the tribunal

Now, look, these men
know what they're up to

If Larner has been at that
same hotel for two years,

they must know something about him

Find out Larner's habits.

- At once.

Will that be all, Inspector?

- Yeah, unless you'd like a glass of beer

- You know I never drink on duty

- Then that will be all.

Book me a call to FBI
headquarters, Washington

I want Mr. McDonald.

Lucas, Lapointe

- Patron?

- Is Old Umbrage gone?

- Like the wind.

- The trouble is, just as he's
made you feel sorry for him

he says something that
makes you want to kick him

Now, plenty of work for everyone

Lapointe, I want you to make out a list

of all American male citizens
who arrived in this country

in the last 10 days

- Done, Patron.
- Right

Lucas, we need passport control.

And see if any men of this description

have arrived in the same period of time.

Well, it takes some time to
get through to Washington

You'll find me at the Place de Orfevres.

Bring me the right answer
and I'll buy you a beer

- Good.

- Don't put it there. You will scratch it.

- Well, I polish it

- Oh, do hurry up. I'l miss my train

- There's plenty of time.

As a matter of fact, there's
no reason for you to go at all

I assure you, you're quite
safe if I'm not here

- If you're not here, who's
going to do the shopping?

And what about the heavy work?

And who's going to make the bed?

Do you want me to die of heart failure?

- No, no, my dear.

- I don't intend to, anyway.

Did you send the wire to Jean?

- Yes, I did

- Telling her what time
the train arrives at Lille?

- Yes, but I don't think it
will be very convenient for her

- Oh, yes it will. A sister is a sister

And at any rate, I won't
be menaced by gangsters

Oh, come along

(phone ringing)

- Yes?

McDonald speaking

Wha? Maigret?

Why, hello, Jules. Yeah, this is Jimmy

Well, when are you coming
over to see us again?

(chuckling) Well, aren't we all?

Uh-huh.

Well, I'll de my best

Okay, fire away.

Who?

Larner, tall and dark-haired?

Sounds like Smooth Bill Larner.

Come to think of it, we
knew he was with you.

Yeah, I'll send you
everything we got on him

- But I have a list here
of American arrivals

in France for the last 10 days.

Are any of them known to you”?

John Holder.

Louis Armitage

Alvin Steenberg.

- No. No, not them

Harry Vernon. Ah, Cinaglia.

- Who did you say? Cinaglia?

- Yeah, Charlie Cinaglia

Sharing a cabin with a Tony Cicero.

Tony Cicero and Charlie Cinaglia

Boy oh boy, you certainly do pick 'em

To think of those two
characters in one cabin.

Why didn't we have more shipwrecks?

Yeah, we've got a library on both of them

Cinaglia was a boxer.

Cicero's always been a racketeer

They're both killers

The first one's rough and
the other one's smart.

St. Louis is their hometown.

You went there on your tour, didn't you?

Well, look, Jules

I don't know what they're
doing over on your side

but I'll let you have prints
and photographs right away

I'll put them on tenight's plane

- Thank you, Jimmy

What?

Don't worry, we're always careful

Goodbye

- I have some more information.

- Splendid, splendid,
Lognon. Sit down and tell us

- I interviewed the head
waiter at the Hotel Wagram

and he informs me that Larmer
very seldom eats there

but one of his assistants
volunteered the information

that Larner frequently takes his meals

at a place called Pozzo's Bar.

- Pozzo's Bar?

- Rue de D'Alensia, very American.

- Oh yes. Well, did you go there?

- I did not wish to exceed my duty.

- Hm, no. Anything else?

- [Lognon] Larner is very
popular with the staff.

Tips well, dresses well, and
rather fond of plump brunettes

- Oh, well, that may be a lead

- We can't question all the
plump brunettes in Paris

- No, but still, it's something

How's your wife, by way, Lognon™

- Are you suggesting that Larner
came to my apartment again”

- No, no, no, no

My dear fellow, please.

No one who knew your wife
could for a moment imagine,

could imagine that--

- We have the names of
the other two gangsters

Charlie Cicero and Tony Cignalia

- Oh.

- By telephone to Washington

- Oh, all the sources of
science are at your disposal,

and considerable funds.

- Yes, well, let's spend some of the funds

that a good dinner at Pozzo's, hm?

- Shall we wait, Patron?

- Yes, till nine o'clock

Who's on duty after that?

- lam.

- Right. We better tell our
wives that we shall be late.

Well, anyway, my wife

You're a gay bachelor now, aren't you?

For the moment.

- If he can get married,
there's hope for me

Let's get organised

- You better ring Madame

- Me? Why me?

- Because you're the
junior, that's why me

Torrance, let's have the cars

On it.

Good boy

- Hey, where's the Patron?

- Gone to find some gangsters.

- What, alone?
- With Old Umbrage

- Ch, now why couldn't he
have taken one of us, eh?

We might've had some fun

- Hello, Madame Maigret”

(mellow music)

- Looks like your luck's
changed, eh, Tommy?

- Oh, evening. You like what?

- Whiskey.

- Scotch, rye, bourbon®?

- Bourbon, like I had it
in America. On the rocks.

- Oh. For you?

- No, I never drink before meals

- Oh, of course. Let's find a table

- Jan, a table for two, huh?

- This way, sir

- Lognon. Cignalia

He's a boxer, Charlie Cignalia

- Interested in boxing?

- In some boxers.

- Inspector Maigret, isn't it?

- Mr. Pozzo, isn't it?

-ltis.

- Your menu, sir.

- Thank you. You'd like something Italian®

- Oh, I'l have just whatever you have

- Oh no, you have what you want.

- Oh, no no no no no

I'd rather you chose.

- All right, spaghetti Neapolitan, twice,

a bottle of Chianti.
- Thank you

A bottle of Chianti, number seven

Spaghetti Neapolitan twice.

- It's very interesting

- Okay?

You know, what they say
about you in the papers

It say you drink beer all the time

- The papers don't know everything.

- Who does, huh?

You like Italian food?

- I do.

I'm not sure that's what you want, though.

- You say you've been to America, huh?

- Yes, how about you?

- Oh, lived there 20 years.

- When did Charlie
Cignalia last come here?

- Hm?

- And Bill Larner.

- Say, we do have a lot of
friends together, don't we?

Hey, Jan, bring a glass, huh?

Smooth Bill Larner.

Now there's a nice guy.

- One of your customers”?

- Oh, you think so?

Oh, don't bother about the wine

You'll have this bottle
on me, eh? And dinner too

- Enjoying yourself, aren't you?

- Why not” I like to have a good time

Not like your friend here

Hey, what's the matter? Wife died?

- Pozzo.

Whereabouts in Paris is Charlie Cinaglia?

- Charlie in Paris? Never.

- And Bill Larner, and Tony Cicero?

- Cicero? Never heard of him.

Say, there's a town of
that name in Illinois.

Sure you don't mean the town?

- No. No account for St. Louis?

- Oh, that's where I
become an American citizen.

I am one, you know.

- Yeah, well, you're
working in France now.

Not even to watch your step, Pozzo.

- What for? What's the matter?

This is a well-run place.
Never have any trouble

You ought to come here more often

I hope your friend gets
over his bereavement, huh?

- That's how Pozzo treats police, anyway

Telephone?

- Here, Monsieur

- Where is it?

- Through there

(phone ringing)

- How are you?

- Over a hand like this?

I don't of anyone alive,

- Julian?

- I'm finished before I start.

- Lucas.

Ah, Patron. Yeah

Etoile 4630.

Uh-huh, good. Right away

Listening desk.

Jacques”? Urgent from the chief

Plug in on Etoile 4630

All ingoing and outcoming
calls to be monitored

for the next three hours.

We are vitally interested
in the names Cignalia,

Cicero, and Larner

Good. Let us know the
moment you get a ping

- Better stay in this
place for a little while

- All night, if necessary.

- No, it won't be. It's
nearly midnight already

I'll send Lucas to relieve
you in half an hour

Now, if Pozzo or any of his staff

try to get out, follow them

Come on.

{ominous music)

(engine revving)

(birds singing)

(mellow music)

{suspenseful music)

{someone knocking)

- Hey, Jan, see who the hell that is, huh?

Oh, Inspector, what can I do for you?

- The inspector who was
in here with me last night

was kidnapped, driven to
Vincennes, and half-killed.

- Would you like a glass of something?

- What do you know about it?

- Nothing.

- You'll find us over
at headquarters, Pozzo

- Sure. Why not?

So long as I can see my consul there.

Don't forget, I'm an American citizen

- How did you warn them?

- Who?
- Charlie and the others.

- Did I?
- Yes.

After I left, and not by telephone

- Oh, so you're tapping
my line now. (tutting)

- Where's Charlie?

(Pozzo chuckling)

- When you were in America,

did you stop off in
Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis?

- 1 did.

- They breed them tough in those parts,

didn't you notice”?

Five years I was a head
waiter in a hotel in Chicago

Then I got my own place in St. Louis.

Made out okay, too

Got on with everyone

Boxers, politicians,
hoodlums, police, everybody

And you know why?

Because I mind my own business

and keep my nose out of other people's.

Same way I do here.

You want to talk to me and
complain about my spaghetti,

okay, I listen

Nothing else

- Where is Charlie?

- You know something, Maigret?

You're a big guy in these
parts, and I'l tell you why.

- Where's Charlie Cinaglia? Where is he?

- Now, look. I'm gonna tell you something

Over here, the crooks are amateurs.

But you deal with these guys,

and you're dealing with professionals

These boys are in the big time

You're minor league

So don't tangle with them,
they're too smart for you

- They're killers. Killers aren't smart

- Okay, so if they're
killers, why are they around?

Why aren't they in the
chair? I'll tell you why,

Because they're too smart

Too smart for the FBI
and too smart for you

Now look, Maigret, you're a nice guy

So why don't you take my advice, huh?

Drop it
- Thanks.

- No, I mean it.

Look, when Charlie there, he was a boxer,

he was a middleweight

He didn't try to mix it with the heavies

- When did you last see him?

- Oh. (chuckling)

- What are the names of the men

who were playing poker
dice here last night?

- You think I asked my customers

for their names and addresses?

- Hey, that's mine

- You'll get it back

- Would you like--

{Lognon coughing)

Would you like a grog, Inspector?

- Grog, what for?

- Why, your cold

- It's not a cold, it's a snuffle

Only natural after being out all night.

{Lognon coughing)

- Where is he?
- In bed.

- What are you doing here”

You should be in the hospital

- Is it your order that I return there”

- No, no, no, no

Now tell me what happened

They drove the car towards me

and one of them held me up with a gun.

They didn't speak

They tried to motion me to
get into the back of the car

Now, what would you have done?

- Got in.

- Yes, that's what I did

Then we drove to Vincennes.

One of them, named
Cignalia, began hitting me,

while Larner, he questioned me

He didn't care very much for him, I think

- What sort of questions did he ask you?

- Where's the body.

(phone ringing)

- See who that is. It's probably Lucas

I took the notepad from Pozzo's bar,

sent it down to the laboratory.

They might be able to
decipher something from it.

Go on.

- Just that, where is the
body, again and again

I must say if I'd known it,

I would have told them,
I'm ashamed to say

In the end two of them
went back to the car.

The one who stayed with me was Cicero.

He drew a gun and stood behind me.

"Where is Mascarelli?", he said

I shook my head.

"Now." I thought, "He's gonna shoot."

But he must've hit me on the head.

- It is Lucas.

- After that I remember
nothing except the hospital

- That's where you ought to be now

Mascarelli, did you say the name?

- Hm, that's the name

- Lucas?

- Patron.

They found the impression of
a phone number on that pad

The letters are G-A-L.

Yeah, the only exchange
that fits is Galvani.

The numbers are not so good

They've got a two, a seven,

something they can't get hold of,

and either a nine or a zero.

No. no, that's the lot

Except that on an earlier sheet,

someone had written two S-P-A-G.

- Hm. Well, that'd be our spaghetti

Now, look, Lucas, this
is what [ want you to do

Start ringing all the Galvani numbers.

It's probably a girl's flat

I'll send Lapointe along to help you

And Lucas, book me another
call to Washington

What are you doing out of bed?

- Oh, I'm perfectly all right.

- Are you sure”?

- Yes, quite sure

- All right then, I'll take Lapeinte away

- What?

- Well, I don't think
they'll be back again

- Oh, of course not.

I am of no importance now.

- Well, don't stand there. Get on with it.

- Mascarelli?

Yeah, we know a Mascarelli

Name of Sloppy Joe

Give me that file I was
looking at this moming,

the one on Mascarelli.

He's a small-time
racketeer from St. Louis.

As a matter of fact, his
name came up just recently

Hold on, will you?

You know where he is?

Well, look, Jules

It's none of my business, of course,

but I'd say go easy on
this one if I were you

Well, you wouldn't want
anyone to get hurt

- They have been hurt

What I'm after now are the
people who do the hurting

Yes. Thank you, Jimmy. Goodbye

The FBI think I'm an amateur too?

- Patron?

- There's something odd about this case

Something that nobody ever says

Every time I mention
Mascarelli, they go cautious

(phone ringing)
Take it.

- Chief Inspector Maigret's office, Lucas

Torrance, where are you?

- [Torrance] Galvani 2769

{woman shouting)

It's a flat off the Boulevard de la--

- [Woman] Why don't you listen te me

when I'm talking to you?

You, you lumbering, get out of here!

{woman shouting)

- All right, Torrance,
we're coming to the rescue

- You, you lumbering,
you lead-footed copper!

And if any more of you come up here,

I have got plenty more to say to them.

(mellow music)

Now look at that mess.

What do you think you are doing,

standing here like & dumb ox?

Now look at yourself

Can't you see yourself?

Don't you look stupid?

Well, you are. And get out of here.

Who said you could sit down?

My furniture is not for
big animals like you

Stand up at once.

And keep your eyes on me

I know what you are thinking.

- And you too?

- You, you've got a nerve

{doorbell buzzing)

How many more are there going to be?

Does it need the whole police force

to question one helpless woman?

- Inspector Maigret, Sergeant
Lucas. Mademoiselle Vogue

- Ah, good. Inspectors now.

When does the magistrate come?

And the judge, and the minister?

- Do you mind, Mademoiselle”?

- Yes, I do. I mind everything

I mind you, I mind that lout,

and I mind being woken up from my sleep

- Patron.

- Ah, Bill Larner

- Well?

- Where is he?

- I don't know.

I had some friends in last night.

- Mm-hm. How many?

- Look, mind your own business.

- Bill Larner?

- Nowy, what's it to do with you”?

I wand to go back to bed

- Which one?

Well, there's enough bedding here for two

- Can't I keep some spare blankets

without the police asking
questions about them?

Would you like to go through my laundry,

and in my larder, and in my wardrobe”

- Yes, do that.

- You wait!

I'll get you in trouble, you'll see

I have a friend who is a deputy.

He'll see that you are fired

- Where do you come from”?

- I'm Belgian

- Passport?

- And my work permit

- Adrienne Vogue, age 30, actress.

- I pose at the Folie Bergere

Is that a crime?

Does it give you the right to
come trampling into my flat

as if it was a stable?

- There's enough food in
the fridge for a siege.

- Shouldn't one eat now?

- And a half bottle of American whiskey

- And if you think you're going
to get any, you are wrong

- I don't suppose you knew what

Bill Larner's friends were up to.

You knows they're wanted for murder?

Do you know what you can
get as an accomplice?

Five to 10 years.

- But I have done nothing

- Except harbour them.

- Bill never killed anyone

- No. No, I don't suppose he
likes his friends very much

Did you?

- You are trying to trap me, eh?

- I'm trying to help you

Look, we know that Bill Larner's friends

left here sometime after 11 this morning

when Pozzo told him that
I was still after them.

- Oh, sit down, you great elephant!

You're driving me mad

Well?

- Where did they go?

- I don't know.

- What did they say?

- Not even thank you, except Bill

- What did Bill Larner tell you?

- That he had to help them.

And as soon as he could,

he'd take them off to the country

- Where?

- He didn't say.

- Did you ever go the country with them?

- What for?

- You ever go fishing?

- Not Bill.

- Racing”?

- Yes, often

- Did he ever win?

- Mostly

He had some friends in stables.

- Jockeys, trainers?

- Especially at Maisons-Lafitte

- Did he ever stay out there?

- Once.

He dialled me up after the show to tell me

that he wasn't coming back that night

- Where did he ring from”

Some cafe, he didn't say where

- All right. Thank you, Mademoiselle.

- Listen. Are these two
men really, really killers?

- Ch yes. But you needn't worry

I'm going to leave Torrance

to keep an eye on this
flat for a little while.

- Him, to watch me?

- Yes, you couldn't have anyone better

- He can watch from outside.

- Of course.

- Keep your mind on your work

- Au revoir, Mademoiselle

- You might just as well come in here

as trampling up and down the lending.

- (chuckling) I suppose I might.

- Here are the dossiers from Washington

They've sent them in from Auglis.

- Good.

- Let me see.

Right. Larner, yes.

Cicero, yes. Cignalia

- Lapointe?

Get onto the racetrack squad straightaway

They should know all about Bill
Larner, if they're any good

I want ta know where he stays

when he goes out to Maisons-Lafitte

to haobnob with the jockeys

- Right. The pictures are here

- And the dossiers? Splendid.

- Maigret!
- Lognon®?

What are you doing here?

- My duty, Inspector.

- Oh, rubbish.

Allright, Lucas, you can go home

- Home? Good.

- Get on with it, Lapointe

- Patron.

- Ah, well, there's always
one for hard work, eh?

- Oh yeah

- Watch out, Mimi, here I come

- Just remember your age, Dad

- Be a good boy and [I'll
bring you back a lollipop.

- The FBI think that I should
send all the evidence to them

and let them handle Cicero and Cignalia

when they get back to the States

- [Lognon] If they get back.

- Yes, well, that means sending you,

because you're the only
evidence we've got

Would you like a trip to the States?

Well, since you're so keen to work,

you can have the next best thing

A nice trip to Pozza's bar.

- Now?

- If you like.

Here, take this with
you, a picture of Larner

Show it around, see if anyone
knows where Larner might be

- At once.

- Yeah.

(Lognon sneezing)

And take something for that cold.

- Patron, the racetrack
squad are making inquiries

They'll ring us back.

- Good.

Well, I'll be at the
cinema with my wife today

She hates to miss the cartoons.

You take the call. Goodnight

(mellow music)

- Oh, waiter.

Some whiskey, please.

- Water or soda, Monsieur?

- Water, please

Waiter, have you ever seen that man about?

- I'l have to call the boss.

Monsieur Pozzo?
- Yeah?

- There's a man here asking questions

- Oh, evening, Inspector

Still in mourning?

- Still on duty

- Well, he wants to know if

you've ever seen this man before

- You look like you had an accident

- It was no accident.

(phone ringing)

- Inspector Maigret's office

No, I'l take the message

Yes.

La Bon Vivant.

What's that?
{someone knocking)

Oh, a kind of restaurant?

Come in.

Yes.

Uh-huh. All right.

Yes. Thanks a lot.

Good night

- Can I help you with anything, Monsieur?

- No, no no no no no. Thank you

- Would you like another drink”

- No, thank you

- Look, I know you lost your wife,

but there's no need to
make my bar miserable

- I have not lost my wife,

- Then you need another drink

- I've had my one

- On the house.

- Patron, good

I'm sorry to disturb you at home,

but I've got an important letter here.

I tried all the cinemas in your district

and I couldn't reach you.

Shall I read you the letter?

- When did it come?

- [Lapointe] Nine o'clock,
addressed to you personally

and marked urgent.

- All right. Go ahead

- "It is desperately
important that I see you

as soon as possible, but
I dare not leave my room

I am at the Hotel de
Britain, Rue Richer, room 47

The hotel is probably being watched

It is a matter of life and death."

I can't quite make out the signature,

but it looks like Mascarelli.

- Hmm. Any news of Lognon?

- [Lapointe] No

- All right, I'l go along
to the hotel right away,

and you hang on there

- Right, I'll wait here.

Oh, Patron, Patron!

- Evening, Monsieur

- Evening. Police

Room 47, who's in there?

- Let's see.

Monsieur and Madame Perkins from Montreal.

- Hm. I'll see them

- No you won't, They're out.

- Really? When, since when?

- Oh, he left about two days ago

- What about her?

- An hour ago. Might be less

There's her key

- Was she alone?

- No, a man came with her

- This man?

- No, not him.

- What was he like?

Oh, stalking dark. American.

- And what was Mr. Perkins like?

- Large, Italian-looking

Always wore dark glasses.

Hardly ever went out.

- He speak French?

- No, but she did, with
an American accent.

- Mm-hm. I'l go up

(phone ringing)

- Hotel de Britain.

For you.

- Yes, Lapointe?

- Patron, I forget to tell you

The racetrack squad knows Larner well

He goes out to a restaurant
near Maisons-Lafitte

called the Bon Vivant.

It's run by an American
woman called Helen Donovan,

but it's shut for the winter now.

- Thank you, Lapointe

Ring Lucas

Tell him that I want him at the office

and I'll be there in a few minutes.

All right

{suspenseful music)

Well, he hasn't come in

He doesn't want to show himself.

Now, this is what you're to do, Lapointe

Ring Belfese at number three district

- Yes. Yes.

Right, I've got that, Patron.

- Well, I'll have a drink and

I'll leave here in 10 minutes' time.

So be quick

- Right away, Patron. Good luck

{suspenseful music)

(gun firing)

(gun firing)

Get to the car.

Put out a general call
to cordon this area.

Get an ambulance to pick him up

{suspenseful music)

(mellow music)

- Waiter.

- Yes, sir

- Do you know that tall man there”

- No, sir, sorry

- Tell me, have you ever
seen this man about at all?

- No, I'm very sorry

- Hiya. You from the police”

- Yes. Are you an American”?

- Yes.

- Are you acquainted with that man?

- Yes.
- You are?

I want some information from you.

- And I want some from you.

- Thank you very much

Lapointe, I want you to
go down to Pozzo's bar

and pick up Lognon

We'll meet you in the Rue Bertelle,

where we'll be collecting Torrance.

- Patron.

- They've identified a
car in the Rue Richer as

having been stolen from outside
a house in Maisons-Lafitte.

That'll be what Charlie came in.

- They seem pretty good
at knocking off cars

- Yeah, they're experts

Bring a gun for Torrance

- He prefers his fists

- Not this time.

I'l see you at the car

- How is @ man who was shot?

- He'll live.

- Are we telling the
police at Maisons-Lafitte?

- No. I want these men myself.

{Torrance laughing)

- Now, you mustn't do that.

- Oh, come on, come on

{someone knocking)
(Adrienne gasping)

- Protect mel

- [Lucas] Torrance! (knocking)

- Excuse me.

- Ah, what's this, a party?

We found them. The chief's
downstairs in the car.

You ready?
- Yeah, right

Oh, I just looked in for a moment

to see that Mademoiselle was all right

- So I see.

- Right, ready

- Oi. You forgot your galoshes.

(tutting) Naughty, naughty

{suspenseful music)

- I'll need some more
shells. I've got five left.

- Worry about that when you've used those

- Ah, gimme a drink, will you?

- Get out of sight, Helen!

- Catch up?

- There's someone outside.

(glass breaking)

{guns firing)

- Now, Lucas, now!

This side, Lucas!

(all shouting)

Anyone get out the back way”?

There's one missing.

- Try the Spanish frontier

- Thank you, Madame

- And we want him back too.

- Take them away

- [Lucas] Lapointe!

- Lucas! How'd you get on”

- Fine. We got the lot, except Larner

- Great.

- The chief up there is very thorough

He won't get far.

What happened to old Lognon?

- I couldn't find him.

By the time we got to
Adrienne's flat, he'd gone

You missed a lot of fun.

- What the devil could've
happened to the old boy?

- Did you try his flat?

- Yes, not a sign of him

- Patron's out looking for him now

- Well, we got the twa killers
and we know where Larner is.

- Yeah, we haven't got
the chap who was shot

We don't know who was in the
second car who picked him up

We're not finished yet.
Check that in, will you?

- Yeah.

- Lognon?

Lognon?

Lognon!

Lognon!

{Logneon snoring)

What happened?

- Oh, Chief Inspector, I'm ill

- Were you attacked again?

- An American, I met an American

and we drink whiskey together.

- Drugged?

- No, after we'd finished
the whiskey, we drank cognac

Then chartreuse.

In the end, we went all along the bottles

at the back of the bar and drank something

out of each of them.

- Are you telling me you got drunk?

- I believe I did.

Oh, I'm so bitterly ashamed

- Well, never mind about that now

Who were you drinking with”

- American named Harry

- Harry?
- Yes.

He had some important news for you

- What?

- Oh, I've forgotten. I forgot.

St. Louis, something about St. Louis

- Was he a gangster?

- No, he was some kind of a policeman

He, oh. oh yes

He fell off the bar stool,
that's the last thing I remember

- Yes, but before that, what
was he trying to tell me?

What did you want me to know”?

What was his surname?

- Lister
- What?

Harry Lister!

- Hi, Maigret

- Assistant DA from St. Louis.

- DA.

- Examining magistrate, more or less

- Correct. Boy, what a night.

I can thank your inspector here

for bringing me home and
putting me into his bed, eh?

- Unfortunate that your wife was in Lille

Now, would you mind explaining”?

- Well, this isn't gonna sound so good,

Jules, but here it goes

You see, we've got a
big cleanup of the city

going on back home

And there's one guy
that we're really after

His name is Luigi

See, we've never been able
to get enough on him before

to put them on trial, but
this time he was fool enough

to do one of his own murders,
outside of a nightclub

And there was one witness.

His name was Joe Mascarelli.

- Mascarellil Sit down.

- You see, Luigi figured that
Mascarelli wouldn't dare talk,

but we were being tough
too and we subpoenaed him

But Luigi was right.

See, Mascarelli got frightened,
drew out all this money,

and he headed for Montreal,

where he got himself a false passport

- Mr. Perkins. Who was Mrs. Perkins?

- Oh, well, so she was the
cigarette girl at the club

See, she always wanted to visit Paris

So Mascarelli took her along as a cover,

figuring that Luigi and his boys

wouldn't be looking for a
couple, but he was wrong

See, Luigi sent two of his
boys, Cignalia and Cicero,

over on the next boat to find Mascarelli

and to rub him out.

So I came over after them
and I found their hotel

and I was waiting outside
for Mascarelli to appear,

and late at night, when he did,

it seems the other two
guys were there as well

Before I realised what had happened,

they grabbed him and they drove off.

So I stole a car.

- You stole a car?

- Yeah, I know, but I had to do something.

You know, I figured that maybe

I could ram them or something.

I didn't have to.

See. Joe realised that he
didn't have much of a chance.

So he finally made a dive for
it and got out of the car

- Alive?

- Well, more or less,

by the time Luigi's
boys finished with him

So I picked him up and I took him over

to see a friend of mine,

a doctor that I used to know
when I was here during the war

He's got a flat over on the Boule-Miche

Joe feels much better now,

but only because he's got about
a gallon of my blood in him

- What about the girl? Where's she”?

- She's cooking for us.

Now, look, Jules, I know
how bad this sounds.

{Logneon snoring)

(lighthearted music)

- So you would have held Mascarelli

on a false passport charge
till he got back to the States

- Once he's in the
dock, we've got our man

- [Maigret] What about
Cignalia and Cicero?

- We'd have them in time too.

- We've got them now for 15 years.

- I certainly gotta hand it to you, Jules

- Why didn't you tell us, Harry?

Why did you want to do
it all by yourself, hey?

Don't you trust us? Didn't
you think we're any goed?

- No, no, it wasn't that, Jules

- I know what it was.

You wanted to do it by yourself.

- Well uh
{phone ringing)

- Maigret.

Yes.

Yes, Monsieur

Of course.

I quite agree.

I'll let you have a report as
soon as possible, Monsieur

Goodbye

Hm, the police of Maisons-Lafitte

want to know on what
authority an arrest was made

An arrest was made in
their area last night

Why, they weren't informed

So you see we're both in
trouble for the same reason.

Come on, I'l by you a beer.

- Right you are.