All language subtitles for Maigret S01E12 The Catcus_Track03-eng

(ambulance siren blaring)

{suspenseful music)

{door squeaks)

{soft mysterious music)

- [Maigret] Dr. Pardon

- Ah, good, they found you, inspector.

- Yeah. How is he, doctor?

- They're gaing to operate at once

- Can I talk to him first?

- No.

{Maigret sighing)

- You'll stay with him”

- Of course.

Ah, what happened?

- Oh, only Lapointe knows

I'd sent him down to keep an eye

on an apartment house
in the Place La Monde

in case young Paulus showed up

- Mm.

- He's the lad who held
up a bar this afternoon

and stole the takings.

Well, I have to join Lucas there now.

I'll telephone you, doctor
- Mm-hmm.

- Do all you can for him

- Twill Twill.

- I blame myself for this

If I thought there was any danger--

- Lapointe will survive, with luck

- People sometimes think that I showy

too much sympathy for criminals,

but believe me. the swine who did this

is gonna be sorry he was ever born.

{dramatic orchestral music)

{slow sombre orchestral music)

{match scrapes)

{curious orchestral music)

{car engine rumbling)

{curious orchestral music)

(suspenseful orchestral music)

{crowd murmuring)

Where's Lucas?

- Number seven. Up there

- Do you care to join me in a
glass of liqueur, inspector?

- Sergeant, Mademoiselle
- Oh

- Thank you, no

- Oh. Well, I could do
with a little something.

Oh, that poor young
detective. Is he married?

- No, but we've sent for his parents

Inspector?

- Why it's Inspector Maigret

Yes, of course it is.
I've seen your pictures

- Who are you?

- Mademoiselle Clement.

She runs this apartment house

- Ah. Well, we'll talk later

Now, would you be good enough to leave us?

- Yes, of course

I shall be in my room if you want me.

It's just across the passage.
- Thank you

- Have you seen Lapointe”

- They're operating now

Well, I don't think he'll be able

to tell us anything tonight,
if he pulls through at all

- As bad as that, eh?
- Yeah.

- I have his notebook.

I've been taking statements
from the tenants.

- We gotta have a full report

- Janvier's report is in

I've been checking it with
the tenant statements.

- Yeah well, give me the gist of it

- The house belongs to
Mademoiselle Clement,

who lives on this floor.

The far end of the passage
is a Hungarian named Vamos,

one-time opera singer,
now teaches singing

- I see.

And in which room does
our young holdup man live?

- Emile Paulus, on the first
floor, just above here

Next to him a Mademoiselle Blanche Dubit.

And on the top floor, a
family called Lothaire,

who also have the attic.

- Know anything about them”

- [Lucas] No, nothing at all.

- I see. Blanche Dubit?

- An actress, age 23, hasn't
worked for the last six months.

Says her uncle visits her twice a week.

Here's her statement.

- "I heard the shot,
looked outta the window.

Saw a man lying on the pavement."

But, wasn't it dark outside?

- Yes, it was

The Hungarian character
heard the shot too

In fact, he got there first
- Hm.

- Then Blanche Dubit joined him.

After that is a little confused,

but Mademoiselle Clement
rang the police at 10:39 p.m

- You knows any more about
this Lothaire family?

- Well, they're a married
coupled with the baby

He's a clerk, tries to write novels

Says he was typing at the
time and the baby was crying,

so they didn't hear a thing.

- What about people in the, in
the houses here, passers by?

No one saw who shot Lapointe?

- No one saw who shot him.

No one heard anyone running away

- [Maigret] And no sign of Emile Paulus?

- Not here, no

The only lead we've got are these.

I found ‘em in the curb
where Lapointe fell

- Hm, Lapointe's lighter,

and a cigarette, barely lit.

- It was dark and he lit a cigarette,

that could've been the chance
the gunman was waiting for

- Well, why shoot at Lapointe?

Because he was Lapointe, or
because he was a detective?

- [Lucas] Would he knows
he was a detective?

- Lucas, you can look like
a lamppost if necessarily

but I should think Lapointe had detective

written all over him.

All right. Send in Mademoiselle Clement.

- Allright. They're
packing up out there now

- Well, I'l see their report tomorrow

While I'm talking to her,
ring the hospital again

there might be seme news.

- Good.

Mademoiselle Clement, please

Thank you, Mademoiselle

- You wanted to see me, inspector?

- Oh, uh, pardon, please sit

- I see you you like my Chartreuse

- Yeah.
- [find it goed too,

for butterflies.

- Just a few questions.

- You've been here 10 years,
and you came from Aubay, hm?

- Yes my, my father was head waiter

at the Boslaan Flambeaux,
and I was cashier there

When he died, I came to Paris,

and looked around for the
right sort of apartment house

- Oh, you never married?

- Oh, I wasn't allowed

Besides, I like being en my own

On the other hand, I like company.

So you see, it's a perfect arrangement.

I have a big family of grown-up people

- Hm. You get to know all your
tenants fairly well, yeah?

- [Mademoiselle Clement] I try to

- Vamos, the ex-opera singer?

- Ah, Vamos, he's always
borrowing hot water

He has trouble with his stove
He doesn't understand it.

- Mm. The Lothaire family?

No, the Lothaires won't be friendly

That's because they're always proud,

and that's because they're
always late with the rent

- Hm. Did Emile Paulus pay regularly?

- (laughs) Nobody pays regularly

- Not even Blanche Dubit?

- Well yes, she pays, but then you see,

she has wealthy relatives.

-Hm
- Her uncle comes

to take tea with her once or twice a week.

- Once or twice a week?

Does he ever stay the night?

(Mademoiselle Clement laughs)

Well, does he?

- Of course not.

There's only one bed

- Hmm.

And what about Emile Paulus?

Do you uh, are you friendly with him?

- Poor Emile, he came
here five months ago,

selling encyclopaedias from door to door

It was raining, his shoes
let in the water. Poor boy

- Poor bey? Do you know what he did”?

- Police told me something of it

- He held up a bar

He terrorised the proprietor
and the cloakroom woman.

Then he pulled out a revolver
and stole $6,000 in cash

After that, he brought it back
here, his share of the loot

I suppose you said "poor boy"
and gave him a square meal?

- Well, I didn't know
what he'd been up to

- Do you consider yourself
a good judge of character?

- (laughs) No, I just like people

- Hmm. Did you like Emile Paulus?

- [Mademoiselle Clement] I
understand the revolver he used

was a plastic dummy from a toy shop

- Who told you that?

- I was here when the
police searched his room

- Mm-hmm. Now you heard the shot, hm?

- No, no, no

As I say there, I was in my kitchenette

making a ham sandwich

- At that time of night?

- Ch, well I, I thought
Madame Lothaire looked peaky

- Hmm. So you took her this ham sandwich”

- Well no, as a matter of fact,

Monsieur Vamos came in there,
said a man had been shot him,

and could he have some brandy.

- So you gave it to him?

- Uh, well, it was Monsieur
Vamos who wanted the brandy

No I, I went to the
telephone and got emergency

- I see.

Well now, I want you te show me

exactly where you were standing

when you gave Monsieur Vamos the brandy

- Yes. Yes, of course.

I was standing just there.

And then I used the telephone here

Of course there wasn't a
police officer using it then

- I see.

- He's just coming out of the theatre now

Hello? Hello?

- Whose door is that?

- Monsieur Vamos.

- Mm-hmm. And that one?

- My bedroom

- Do people come and go to all hours?

- People do

- They have keys?

- Oh, well no

When the door's locked at
night, they ring the bell

and then I release the catch.

- [Maigret] I see.

- There's a switch by my bed

- Well, let me talk to Dr. Pardon, please

- There's also this little
window into your bedroom,

so you can who it is

- Exactly

- Well let me talk to her.

Let me talk to someone.
I'm getting lonely here

- At what time do you shut the door?

-10.

- Half an hour before the shot, huh?

- Mm, yes.

- But a stranger could
have got in earlier,

and gone up to one of the
rooms overlooking the street

- Sister Flouret?

I see.

Uh-huh. And that's all you can tell us?

All right, thank you, sister. Goodnight.

Lapointe is comfortable.

- When can he talk?

- I didn't ask her.

They've got the bullet

- What calibre?

- Oh, she wouldn't know

We'll have to wait for the lab report

- Ch yes, we'll have to
walt for the experts

They'll start work tomorrow morning

10 o'clock, after breakfast.

(Mademoiselle Clement laughs)

What're you laughing at?

- (laughing) The way you put it.

- Nowy we were discussing the question

of whether a stranger could've got in

without your knowledge

- Impossible

- Mm, well, someone got out

You told Lucas that you
don't know when Emile,

Emile Paulus left the house.

- Look, I do my shopping
for an hour every morning

After that, no one comes in or goes out

without my knowledge

- And after the shot, you
heard footsteps in the street?

- No.

- You told me you never heard the shot.

- I heard it, but I
didn't know what it was.

- [Maigret] Which is Paulus' room”

- [Lucas] Upstairs.

(knocking at door)

- Monsieur Vamos, the coast is clear.

- All his things are at headquarters.

- Mm.

Where was the money?

- Fastened with tape to the
underside of this drawer.

- Hmm. You sure it was
the money from the bar?

- His share of it.

Exactly half of the American
dollars that were in the till

were found there.

- [Maigret] Okay

- Hello, sergeant

- Mademoiselle, come in.
- I didn't know it was you

- Mademoiselle Blanche Dubit,
the girl who gave the alarm.

Chief Inspector Maigret.

- Tell me, did you know
the occupant of this room?

- Not really. He wasn't my type

{baby crying)

- Oh, that baby.

- The Lethaire baby

- She's going to have another

Then I'll have to move.

- Hm, interferes with your studies, huh?

- Well, if it's not the
baby, it's the typewriter

If you should happen to
want me, I'm next door

Goodnight.

- Goodnight

- Uh-huh, lucky uncle

- What do you know about
that house opposite?

The ene with the light

- The ground floor's a bistro

Woman lets the rest of it as an apartment

to a family called Bourcicault

The wife's an invalid, the
husband's a commercial traveller.

- Has that young woman
used the phone at all

since you came on duty?

- No, no one has

- Let's go down.

- I'am the most grateful. Goodnight

(door clicks shut)

- Monsieur Vamos.

- Oh yes, yeah

- The ex-opera singer

Looks like he was last
playing Prince Igor

- (laughs) He's probably
got the hot water bottle

full of vodka.

- Mademoiselle Clement,
I can't impose this

but I should like to move
into your empty room

- But of course, inspector, I
should love to have you here

- Shall I bring your things
around from the apartment,

or should I bring ring Madame Maigret?

- Oh, well I just remembered,

my wife happens to be away at the moment

Uh yes, her sister's having a baby

- Well then, of course you may stay here

I'l ask Monsieur Vamos
to lend you some pyjamas

- Thank you

{Lucas laughs)

{slow sombre horns music)

{cat meows)

{slow sombre horns music)

(startled music)

(water flowing)

{typewriter keys clicking)

(car engine turns over)

{slow suspenseful music)

(Maigret sighs)

(Maigret sniffles)

(Maigret sighs)

{pipes groaning)

(Maigret sighs)

{slow suspenseful music)

(glass cracking)

- Oh, it's only you.

Oh goodness, I heard the stairs
creak and I was so scared

I dropped the saucer.

- Here, let me take this

- Oh, thank you

(laughs) Oh, goodness
me, you had no water.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Perhaps you'd prefer some beer.

Yes, of course you would

Look, now I keep it in
this cupboard here. See”?

Now you know the secret.

And the opener, I keep
in this drawer here.

- Couldn't you sleep?

- Ch yes, I had a very good sleep

Do sit down, inspector.

They say it's a good brand

- Thank you. I don't usually
drink beer at all hours.

- Oh well, it's nearly dawn

What's nicer than supper for breakfast”?

- Hmm.

- Um, did you not find the pyjamas fitted?

- Oh yes, yes. I just
wasn't ready for bed

Aren't you going to eat your ham sandwich?

- Would you like it?

- No, thank you

Is that the one that you
made for Madame Lothaire?

- Oh, what a good memory
you have, inspector

I never got round to taking it to her.

- It still looks quite fresh

- Ch well, I'd only cut the ham

You see, the bread I keep in a cloth

Itisn't really very good for my figure

- [Maigret] You shouldn't
cut such thick slices.

There must be at least
six ounces in there

- Do you think my eyes are
bigger than my stomach?

- You have very fine eyes,
Mademoiselle Clement,

but even this would not prevent
me from making a request

- Well, I'm hardly in a
position to refuse any request

- I must examine your bedroom

- Um, inspector, I've already told you

I've never been married.

I, I should also tell you

I've never had a man in my bedroom

You'll find this hard to believe, perhaps,

from a woman on her own, but--

- I could set your mind at ease on that

You may remain here if you wish

- Your men have already
gone over it twice

And it's very untidy

Uh, somebody might drop in and,

and you'll have to do the explaining

Oh dear, I would've tidied up a little bit

If I'd known I was
going to have a visitor

- All right, Paulus, you
can come out of there.

How long has he been there?

- All right, Emile, come out
and talk to Inspector Maigret

He'll come in a moment, I expect

He probably dived under there

when he heard you on the stairs

He's been here most of the day.

He slept in my chair for
awhile after you went ta bed

- [Maigret] Have you eaten today”?

- Not since last night

- Well, there's a big ham
sandwich in the sitting room

Go on. Mademoiselle Clement
prepared it for you

- She didn't know I was there.

I hid when--
-Oh, doas

the inspector says, Emile.

- Look, why don't you just--

- Go on, we'll talk in a minute

Look after him for a moment.

- Come on.

No, no, now don't talk till
you've had something to eat

And there's some black coffee for you

- Police headquarters.

Chief Inspector Maigret here

I want to speak, hello?

Lucas? Ah.

Yes, I want you to bring
a squad car around here

to Place La Mende, straightaway

Yes, it's for Emile Paulus.
He's given himself up

All right, young man.

You'll be charged with
holding up the Bar Singon,

and stealing a large sum of money.

- With a dummy revolver.

- Well, that'll be taken intc account

You'll get three years,

and then you'll be drafted into
the army for service abroad

- So what?

- Don't talk to me like
that. I'm trying to help you.

There was a young detective,
not much older than you

He's just had a bullet
extracted from his lung

Now, up at police headquarters,

they may jump to conclusions,

and I shan't be there to protect you

So I want to know the
name of your accomplice

Quickly, all about it

- (signs) Look, he's, he's all in

When your men came earlier
and searched the house,

he hid on the roof, he
was there for hours.

- I think I knows why you held up the bar

You had a friend, yeah?
And he dared you to

He's probably a bit older than you,

and I didn't suppose he's
ever hucked encyclopaedias

from door to door.

Now where does your mother live”?

- I haven't gotten a mother

- Your father?

- Lock, I don't want
him to know about this.

- Look, when a police officer gets shot,

this gets into the papers.

Now, who was the man with
you in the Bar Singon?

- [Mademoiselle Clement] Tell him, Emile

- Who was the man with
you in the Bar Singon™?

- I won't tell you.

- Oh, you little fool.
He's trying to help you

If I'd been your mother, you'd

All right, if he doesn't
say anything, I'll tell you

The name of his friend
is Jean, Jean Maupin.

- Is that right”?

- He's cleared out.

- Where to?

- Find out.
{car engine rumbling)

- That's the squad car

You'll find out something
in a minute. Go on.

- Let's get on with it

- He's had a letter from
him postmarked Antwerp

- Antwerp? Is Jean Maupin a Belgian?

- He's got a Belgian passport

He wanted the money to get to America

He'll be halfway there by now

- What did you want it for?

- Guess.

- Oh, inspector. That
was a silly question

Inspector Maigret

- [Maigret] I'm coming

- It's the telephone

{woman vocalising in background)

It's your wife.

- Oh, thank you

It's me.

- What's happened? She
said you had a big night

- [Maigret] Well, I had to
arrest one of her lodgers

That makes a big night for her.

- She said you were still in bed

- There's only one telephone in the house,

and it's in the hall.

How's your sister?

- Nothing yet.

Jules, who is that singing?

- It's a young girl I've never even seen

- [Mrs. Maigret] Will
you be going home now?

- No, I think I'll stick
around here for a moment.

- [Mrs. Maigret] Have
you had any breakfast?

- [Maigret] No, I'm just
going out to get some

Bye, I'll ring later.

(Maigret sighs)

(knocking at door)

- Monsieur Vamos, I must see you a moment

- But I've got a pupil--

- It's urgent

- Would you excuse me for a moment”?

Continue with (vocalising), and all go up

- He's staying. I can't have
it here a moment longer.

- No, no.

- Now look, he's quite capable
of ordering another search

Then where should I be?

- But what shall I do with it?

- Drop it in the river.

- But there's broad daylight

Please, kind, good,
Mademoiselle Clement, please,

leave it there under your
pretty little table mats

- Now look, will you promise
to get rid of it tonight?

- I promise

{Mademoiselle Clement sighs)

{Vamos speaks French)

{cars humming)

{gentle bouncy music distantly)

(gentle bouncy music increases)

- Ah, bonjour, Monsieur.
- Bonjour

White wine, please
- Yeah.

Monsieur Lothaire, your change

Oh, you'd think he'd never been
late for the office before.

- Is he often?

- (scoffs) Tapping away at
his typewriter half the night

I expect he kept you awake

It's Inspector Maigret, isn't it?

- Thank you

- I wondered if you might turn up here

Do you own all this house?

- Well your men asked that one

We let the the next floor,
name of Bourcicault.

Very nice people

He's a commercial, gets about a lot.

She's an invalid, poor thing

- Mm-hmm. Was he here last night”?

- Bid his taxi wake you too?

- Who looks after Madame
Bourcicault when he's away”?

- My wife. Would you like to speak to her?

- Hmm.

- Louise!

- Dees he go far afield?

- Ch yes, he's all over the place

He's been to Algiers--

- What is it, Henri?

- Inspector Maigret, dear.

He wants to talk to you about madame

- Well, you won't find the
murderer here, inspector

- No, I don't expect to

I just thought Madame Bourcicault
might be able to help me

- Oh, she's an invalid, you know?

- Can I talk to her?

- She'd be delighted

She never has any visitors.

Well of course there was
the excitement yesterday

You can come this way
There's a door into her hall.

- Thank you

(knocking at door)

- Who's there?

Come in.

- A visitor for you. Inspector Maigret.

Don't keep her too
long. She tyres quickly

- [Francoise] Good,
good morning inspector

- Bonjour

- Please, sit down.

- Thank you

- I'm, I'm told you arrested
the murderer last night

- Well, there hasn't been any murder.

- He didn't die, the young detective?

- No, no. No, he'll live

(Francoise sighs)

- It's, it's a great relief to know that.

Oh you, you may smoke if you want do

My husband does

- Thank you

You know, the main difficulty in

making an inquiry of this nature

is to fix the comings and
goings all the people concerned

It's not that they tell deliberate lies,

it's just that their recollections
are a little inexact.

So I thought that somebody
lying quietly in bed

might have a more exact recollection

of the sequence of events,

particularly with regards
to certain noises, hmm

I take it that you were in bed
at the time of the shooting?

- I very seldom leave my bed, inspector

- Hmm.

Was your husband here last night?

- No, his train was due
in from Bordeaux at 10:45.

- After the shooting?

- Oh yes. He didn't
arrive here until 11:30.

- Oh, hmm.

Was the window open?

- I'm not quite sure. It's
usually open a little.

- Was the blind down?

- Yes, I think so

- Just before the shooting,

did you hear the sound of
footsteps down the street?

- No.

- Mm. Sound of voices or
a window being opened?

- No.

- What about after?

- Ch yes, several people were
opening windows and shouting

- Mm. And uh, footsteps? Someone running?

- When?

- After the shot?

- Yes, I think so

- Are you certain of that?

- No. No, I, I'm not certain

- Hmm.

When did you leave your bed?

- Oh, a few minutes
after hearing the shot

There, there were a lot
of people in the street

- Mm-hmm. Did you switch on the light?

- No, I think I switched it off

before looking out of the window.

I, I, I was in my nightdress

- All right.

- Just, just put it down
on the table, inspector

My uh, my husband doesn't
take that one with him.

It's, it's too big for his pocket.

- Tell me about your
husband, Madame Bourcicault

- Well he, he travels for a
manufacturer of machine tools.

- Is he away from home a lot”?

- Yes he's, he's just left on a,

on a tour of equatorial Africa.

- At 5:30 this morning?

- Yes.

- Only six hours after
returning from Bordeaux?

- He gets three months leave in 12

In between trips his, well his visits home

are sometimes very short

- Mm. How long have you been married?

- For 15 years

- I, I've been an invalid for five years

I'm 38. He's 12 years older.

He met me when I was serving in a,

in a gentleman's outfitter in
the Boulevard Saint-Michel.

He wanted some tropical shirts

The sleeves were too long

I agreed to alter them as a favour.

When he called for them, he
invited me out to dinner.

His, his first wife had
died two years previously

He asked me to marry him. I accepted.

- No regrets?

- [Franceise] He's a wonderful man

-Goon.

- Ch, uh, I forget where I was

- Altering shirts.

You uh, you must've
been a dressmaker then?

- My father died when I was 17.
I, I had to fend for myself

I took a job as, as a sewing girl in a,

in a big fashion house.

You, you can't imagine what happened

- Well, I don't think you
need to tell me anymore

if you don't want to.

- I came to Paris. I made money

The easy way for a woman

I, I don't defend myself.

I only know it was difficult to live

on the wages of a shop assistant

- Hmm.

- [Francoise] Desiere understood that

- Desiere?

- My husband. I, I never
hid anything from him

- Well thank you, madame.

I'm convinced that what
you've just told me

is the absolute truth.

Now, I should like you to answer me,

with the same absolute
truth, another question

Who was with you last night
when my young detective Lapointe

was shot in the street outside?

- Who? Why, why nobody

- (sighs) When people tell
me a long and frank story

about themselves and their husbands,

when they volunteer information
which can be checked,

information that's not
entirely in their favour,

I begin te suspect that
they're hiding something else

- I have nothing to hide

- Nothing that we won't find out?

(Francoise moaning)

- You have no right to.

Oh, my head. (gasping)

There's some, some pills over there

Sorry, I, 1, I get, get these attacks

- Vitamin tablets?

Here, take the lot

There's nothing wrong with
your head or your heart

I don't doubt that you are an invalid,

but you're not the sort of invalid

that you're pretending to be now

Now who was with you when
my detective was shot?

- Nobody

- Who comes here when your husband's away”?

(Francoise breathing heavily)

I don't think that you shot my detective

I don't think that your husband did.

I'm staying just across the way, madame.

When you feel that it's best

for you to tell the whole truth,
just pick up the telephone

Or if you prefer, you can just
signal to me from the window,

‘cause I'll be watching

- Oh, I could cry when I
think of that poor young man

- Yes, me must hope for the best.

- Yes, mustn't we?

(sighs) He was always
so well-mannered, too

- You knew him?

- Well, of course.

- What, Lapointe”?

- Oh no, I was talking
the other one, Emile,

alone in prison

- He's got plenty of company

- Do you think I could take
him in a parcel of food,

or isn't that allowed?

- Nothing against i, I suppose

- He didn't shoot the detective, you know

I heard Inspector Maigret admit that.

- Someone did.

{door slams)

- There he is now. I shall talk to him.

Oh, inspector, Sergeant Lucas is here

- Oh, thank you

Well, what news?

- He had a good night.

- Hospital jargon

- Tavas gave half a litre of his blood

If that doesn't pull him
through, nothing will.

- Inspector, may I take in
a parcel of food to Emile?

- 1 told her she could.

- Certainly, Mademoiselle

- Ah, Thank you.

I'll go across and order it now,

unless you want me for anything”

- Yeah, just uh, just put
in a pack of cigarettes

- Oh, thank you. I will.

-.45 Colt at about 20
metres. He was dead lucky

Bullet hit a button and
deflected around the rib.

- Trajectory?

- Hard to tell, looks from a high angle

- Yeah, just what I thought we'd find

Now, what about Emile's accomplice?

This Jean Maupin.
- Maupin?

- Anything on him?

- Picked up at the border last night

The Army wanted him to, for desertion

- Well, I shouldn't think
he was issued with a coat.

- So you're not gonna charge Emile Paulus?

- With shooting Lapointe? No, no

My theory is that he was
shot from the house opposite

And not by the husband

I think that she had another man in there.

- But the wife's an invalid.

- Oh, well, invalids can
be attractive to some men.

No, I think that her
lover saw Lapointe outside

and thought that he was being tailed

on behalf of the jealous husband,

whom he knew was due home at the 10:45.

- [Lucas] Then we could start
by picking up the husband?

- No, waste of time, Luca

What man knows the name
of his wife's lover?

No, we'll start by tapping her phone.

Well, I told her I was gonna watch her,

and that's just what I'm going to do.

- Oh and a package of cigarettes.

- Mm-hmm. Uh, what kind?

- Bo you know what he smoked?

- Hm.

- Yes, but do you know
where to send all this?

- Don't worry, I'll see it gets there

- Oh, thank you, Mr. Keller. Au revoir

- Au revoir.

- Oh, excuse me

It is Mademoiselle Clement, isn't it?

- Yes. I think I've seen
you here before, haven't I?

- Yes, I don't live very far away

Would you like a little something, eh?

-Oh-

- A green shot rose, eh?

A green shot rose, for
Mademoiselle Clement.

Another white wine too.

I am a reporter.

I'm interested in the Paulus case.

- Oh, he didn't do it, you know

He didn't shoot the detective.

- Why are you so sure about this”?

- The police don't think so.

- Well, nothing in the paper yet.

- As a matter of fact, Inspector Maigret's

staying in my house and I,
well I think I could say

I'm in his confidence.

- Mademoiselle, Monsieur.

- Thank you

(both toasting in French)

- You think, you know, we
might do business together

My paper would pay for information.

- Oh, well I--

- Now, for instance. Does he
suspect anyone in your house?

(Mademoiselle Clement laughs)

- He suspects everybody.

- Oh. Even you?

- (laughing) Of course

But, he spends all his time
watching the house opposite.

I mean this one.

- Oh.

{slow suspenseful music)

(knocking at door)

- Come, come in

- Madame Bourcicault?

Well, have you thought it over?

- I've been thinking

- And what have you got to tell me”?

- What else can I tell you?

- Well, there's a gap isn't there?

In that, that life history you told me

The uh, year or two before
you went to the outfitters

Well, nevermind, we'll
cover that in due course.

Giving the cactus some sun”

- Well, it wanted it

- When was it last in the window?

-Well I, I give ita
little sun every day

But when it's in the window,
I can't see it from my bed

- I see.

And when it's over here, you can see it

But he can't.

Comes from Paris, doesn't he?

- Who are you talking about?

- Your lover.

- (laughs) A lover for me?

- You do yourself an injustice, madame

- Although you have been
an invalid for five years,

your husband still loves you

A lover could still love you

- If this amuses you, go on

- When your husband is at home,

you put the cactus in the window

as a signal to you lover.

It means keep away.

And although your husband's
not here at this moment

you've still put the cactus in the window

as a warning to him that you're
under police observation

- But why should I warn him?

- Because it was your lover
who shot my detective

- That's not true.

- There were no footsteps in the street,

because he knew that he
could stay here until 11:30,

when your husband was due home

- That's a lie.

- [Maigret] That he hid here?

- No, that he fired the shot

- [Maigret] Well then, who did?

- I did. I shot him.

I don't know who you're
talking about, but,

but it was me, through
that window, it was open

I was bored, that, that is
why I shot him. I was bored

- Madame, what're you doing?

- Getting dressed. I'll go with you

What would you like me to wear? Black”

- Now, now. Come on.

Take it easy.

{Francoise gasping)

- Arrest me, but I won't say anything.

- You're making yourself ill.

- If you're going to arrest
me, where's your warrant?

You haven't got one.

If you don't get out of here
at once, I shall scream

I'll shall say you've, you've tortured me

I, I shall say you've assaulted me

- I had hoped that you
would confide in me.

I'm not your enemy.

- [Francoise] Oh go. Please, go

- Shall I move the
cactus back to the table?

Your lover will come to you

if it's not in the window, won't he?

And if you move it back to the window,

you'll prove my theory, hm?”

Shall I move it?

All right. We'll leave
it where it is then.

I'm
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in
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Ww
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{door clicks open)

You can always get me on the telephone

{soft mysterious music)

(door clicks shut)

{soft mysterious music)

- Well I don't know.
He may be here forever.

But that's a boring place

Oh no, not there, it's full of tarts

Well I don't know it but I'll try,

if you'll be really good to me. (giggles)

Yes, all right then, I
promise. In 20 minutes

(smacks lips) Bye

- Give my regards to your uncle.

- Chyes, I will.

Oops. Sorry

- Sorry

- She's on her way to the lobster,

followed by Crepes Suzette.

(Mademoiselle Clement chuckles)

- Inspector, may I have a word with you”?

- Nothing prevents you

- In private.

Inspector, how long are you staying here?

- Oh, I don't know, why?

- Well, your police are
giving my house a bad name

- Oh, I'm sorry

- Get accosted by perfect strangers

Just now there was a man across the bar.

Ah, goed, there's some beer left

- Who was this man who
accosted you in the bar?

- Oh, I don't. I've seen him there before.

He calls himself a reporter

- Hm, and isn't he?

- Oh, well he's not my idea of a reporter.

He wears good shoes,
and a knitted silk tie.

- You would've made a good
detective, mademciselle

(Mademoiselle Clement laughs)

Is this why you wanted
me to leave the house?

(Mademoiselle Clement laughs)

- Ch, I, I'd forgotten all about it

- Perhaps you wouldn't have been

such a good detective, after all

- Oh, it, it, it's very old.

It belonged to my father.

- Oh yes, the headwaiter
What did he use it for?

To shoot the people who didn't tip him?

- You believe me?

- Qughtn't I to?

- Yeah, but it, it, it
might've been used to, fo--

- No, no, no, no. Net last night

It's a relic of the first world war

and it's filled with lead.

Now, tell me some more about the bar

- Oh, the man.

Well, he was about um, about 50, thin,

yellowish complexion,
rather piercing eyes

And he wore a grey suit and a grey hat.

- What did he wanna know?

- Who your suspected

Well, I told him you
suspected everybody. (laughs)

But I said that you spent your time

watching the house opposite.

Well, that's true, isn't it?

Oh dear, I suppose I,

suppose I shouldn't
have told him anything

I could go back and tell him
something else if you want

- That's exactly what I do want

Now mademoiselle, I want
you to go over to that bar

on some excuse, and if he's not there,

wait for him because he'll come back.

- What do you want me to tell him?

- I want you to tell him that I have found

a big calibre revolver
hidden in this house.

- Oh.

- Well, that's true, isn't it?

- Yes.

- And that I've gone back to headquarters

to charge Emile Paulus
with attempted homicide

- Will he believe me?

- Well, he'll see the police
car come and pick me up

- Oh yes

- Then you can go on to
say that you don't believe

that Paulus did it, right?

And then you say to him,

"I think the house opposite is
worth watching by a reporter

looking for a story

Why don't you rent my first floor front

where you can watch in comfort?"

Hm?

"I'll make you a special price," you say

- Less than I'm charging you?

- No, that'd be a mistake.

(Mademoiselle Clement chuckles)

Right, off you go.

- All right. How long will you be?

- I've just gotta ring for the car now

{woman vocalising music
scales in background)

{door bangs shut)

{woman vocalising music
scales in background)

(knocking at door)

Monsieur Vamos, clear the door.

Follow me.

Now, put that on your head

Stick that in your mouth

There, not bad. Now listen

In 10 minutes time, a
police car will arrive here

and I want you to get into
it and order the driver

to take you on to police
headquarters, right?

- Are you arresting me?

- No, but,

I might.

No, you're helping the police,
that's what you're doing

- But--

- Don't you wanna do that?

- But I've got a pupil

- Oh, well go and tell her
that you've just remembered

an urgent appointment, hmm?

{curious orchestral music)

- Bonjour, monsieur.
- Bonjour

- I saw the revolver myself,

under some table mats in my living room

But, I'm sure that the boy
never went into that room.

- But why do you think this
house is worth watching?

- Because I believe Emile is innocent,

and because I've known my
other tenants for years

- And the revolver?

- Shall I tell you what I think”

I believe the police
planted it there themselves

When one of their own gets
hurt, they stop at nothing

{car engine rumbling)

- The bill, please

- All right, off you go

Now don't overdo it, now

- If you have no luggage, I
have to ask for a deposit

- Six franks, 50

- All right.

Here.

- Thank you

- That enough?

- How long do you want it for?

- Not for long.

- Shall I whip you an egg and milk?

You must eat something

- No. No, thank you.
- The inspector's cleared off

No loss. He drank nothing
but the cheapest white wine

Oh, isn't your cactus
getting too much sun?

You want to be careful,
they dry out in no time

Shall I move it?

- What did you say?

Did you say the inspector had gone?

- [Mademoiselle Clement]
The door on the right

- Thank you

{door bangs shut)

Inspector Maigret, I thought you'd--

- That's what I meant you to think

How much rent did she charge you?

- Oh, 10 francs.

But it was worth it. I wanted to see you

I have a request to make

- You wanted to see me?

- Yes. You're not going to arrest me?

- No, not yet. Sit down

- Thank you

Yes, I wanted to see
you for several reasons

First of all, you know
that boy you took away

is innocence of the shooting

- Hows can you be certain of that?

- Well, you're not so
sure yourself, are you?

- I ask the questions

- All right, go ahead

- Did you shoot my detective?

- Now come, come, inspector

I wanted to just see you

because I have a proposition to make.

Certainly, I don't want to
see that young man suffer

I know how you feel about your detective,

but I, I have feelings too, you know.

- Yes, the woman across the way

- Now my bargain is, if you
see that she's not involved,

I'll tell you the whole story

- You won't get away
with anything, you know?

- Well, what about this?

- That answer would certainly involve her

- No bargains?

- No bargains

- All right.

- This is the one, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- All right.

I'll do my best to see
that she's kept out of it

- Thank you

Will you give me a few
minutes to say goodbye to her?

- You thought that her husband
had put a detective on you,

didn't you?

The husband was due home,
so you had to clear out

but the man that you thought
was watching you wouldn't go

He lit a cigarette in the
dark, and you took aim

If you'd killed her husband,
I could've understood.

- And the second tenses
you don't understand?

- There's something else, isn't there”?

- Well, what makes you think that?

- When people admit to a crime
too easily, I become curious

- All right, if I satisfy your curiosity,

will you let me say goodbye to her?

- Yes, I will

- [Foucrier] Well you
wouldn't a minute ago

- No, I've changed my mind about you

You shot my detective, all right,

but I wanna know the real reason.

- Well, it's a very simple one

Not because I'm her lover.

Not because I wouldn't
have shot her husband,

if the need had been.

I've lived in violent places

- Where?

- South America.

- French Guiana?

- No, I had to keep out
of French territory

- Why?

- (scoffs) It wouldn't have
been just a penal colony for me

had I been caught.

- Death?

- Yes.

- You--
- And I am caught now.

- You killed a man?

- Many years ago, yes
- Tell me about it.

- I was poor, miserably
poor as a young man

Used to sell brushes from door to door.

No hope of ever doing anything
else for the rest of my life

I was in the hands of @ moneylender

We quarrelled. I shot and robbed him.

I got away.

I thought I was free

I had to come back.

I couldn't stay away from her.

She was married.

I was the one she loved.

She still loves me.

- Yes, she does

- We have no hope of any life together

But apart there was even less than life

In all these years, I have been
waiting for this to happen.

I, (inhales} I looked out of that window,

saw your detective standing there,

well the whole thing seemed to

explode in my mind, and I, I fired

I fired to escape, only that, to escape

Not to kill, not that time.

- When you did kill, where was it?

- Oh, out at Sholong

You'll find the case still on your files

You can take it down now, mark it solved

- We never do that.

Just passed to the department of justice

- I have lived with fear too long

- All right, I'll give you 10 minutes.

- Thank you

(knocking at door)

(slow sombre music)

- It's all right, my
darling. It's all right

(slow sombre music)

{curious orchestral music)

- Does she allow you to
smoke in her drawing room”?

- Ch yes, yes

- Why, Mademoiselle Clement, allow me

My wife

- Oh, madame

- Madame.

(women chuckle)

- Has your sister had her baby?

- Oh ves, it was a boy. Eight pounds

They're going to call him
Jules, after his uncle.

- Oh.
- I hope he's good-looking.

- Oh, because he's good-looking.

{women laugh)

Oh, we thought you might like
this as a little souvenir.

- Oh, madame

Ohl

Oh, he was the best lodger I ever had

But I hope he never stays here again

Mr. Vamos was very jealous

(Mademoiselle Clement speaks French)

{curious orchestral music)

- Well, congratulations

(all laughing)