All language subtitles for Maigret S02E11 The Reluctant Witness_Track03-eng

{suspicious music)

(Armand coughing)

- Call my brother, Catherine

(door closing)

{suspicious music)

- Why aren't you at school”?

- I came back. I forgot a book.

- Always forgetting. Always late.

Be off with you

- Catherine, what was
that noise in the night?

- There was no noise in the night

(footsteps clomping)

{suspicious music)

My baby.

My little boy.

{suspicious music)

(dramatic music)

(match striking)

{upbeat accordion music)

{traffic humming)

(light music)

- I thought that name
meant something to me

Do you remember Lachaume's
Biscuits, Lucas?

- [Lucas] I can't say I do.

- Eh, well, when I was a boy,

every village grocer sold them.

Ah, they made Petit Beurre wafers.

A lot of stuff.

All had the same cardboardy taste

I thought they'd gone out
of business years ago

All right, let's go and
see what's it's all about.

{traffic humming)

The glass is broken.

- [Lucas] It looks as though

it's been like that for some time.

- Chief Inspector Maigret

May we come in?

{doors clicking)

(knuckles rapping)

-Comein.

- Ah, Inspector Muzeau, isn't it?

- Yes, how do you do, Chief Inspector?

- You know Sergeant Lucas?

- Hi, Inspector

- Well, when did you hear about this?

- An hour ago

The brother rang the station

- Brother?

- This one's brother.

Armand Lachaume.

- I see.

What's the explanation?

- They say his pocketbook is missing.

- Is he the older brother?

- Yes, he ran the factory

- [Maigret] Married?

- Widower.

- Hmm.

When did it happen?

- Sometime in the night

There's a catch broken
on the landing window.

They think the burglar got in that way.

- Hmm, who was in the house?

- Well, let's see.

The old mother and father.

They sleep on the floor above.

Then there's the little boy.

He's, uh, went to school

- Hmm.

In spite of what's happened?

- He went off before they
found the body, so they say

- Who else was in the house?

- Oh, Catherine the maid

- Mmm-hmm.

- She and the boy sleep upstairs, too.

Then of course, there's
Armand Lachaume and his wife.

They sleep down here.

Separate rooms

They were all here.

No one heard the shot?

Well, so they say

- Mmm.

Lucas, ring LaPointe

Ask him to get down here.

Bring Torrance with him

You better take a look around.

- Right.

- See If we can see any
sign of Dr. Gadelle here

- Good.

- I'm here. Coming.

What a place, what a fantastic place

I got completely lost.

A sort of Gothic maze.

I opened one door, there was
an old witch sitting there

And you wouldn't believe it,
but she actually spat at me.

Have the photographers been?

- No, they're on their way.

- Well, I can't start
till they're through

Imagine having to live here.

- [Maigret] See, Armand Lachaume”?

- Yes.

- I'm Chief Inspector Maigret

Is there anywhere we can talk?

- Yes, if you wish

Come this way

- Do you need me”?

- Ah, no, no, not if you want to get back

I'll ring you later

- Sorry, Monsieur.

- Where are those damn photographers?

- They probably got lost like you did

{suspenseful music)

- Excuse me.

{suspenseful music)

Chief Inspector Maigret?

- I asked Maitre Radell to be present

- You lost no time in getting a lawyer

- Frankly, I don't know
your precise rights here

- Oh, I can tell you if you wish

- You will understand, Chief Inspector,

my presence does not
imply a defensive attitude

on the part of the family

- It makes no difference.

Did Monsieur Leonard manage the factory?

- [Armand] I explained
that to your colleague

- What function, Monsieur?

- I look after the
stocks and distribution.

- Oh, still growing concern.

- Certainly.

- I'm told his wallet was missing.

Was there much money in it?

- It's possible

I can't be sure.

- Did he handle the firm's money?

- Yes.

He and the bookkeeper Monsieur Breme.

- Mmm-hmm. Where is it kept”?

- In the safe in my brother's
office on the ground floor

- Was the safe tampered
with during the night?

- No.

- The bookkeeper's still here, isn't he?

- He can add nothing to what I've said

- Mmm.

You believe that your brother's murderer

broke in intending to
burgle the house, hmm?

- He got in through the landing window

- Yet he ignored the safe

That's a bit odd, isn't it?

Your brother was shot.

Your room is only a few yards from his,

yet you heard nothing.

That's a bit odd, too, isn't it?

- Is that a question or a
comment, Chief Inspector?

- I heard nothing

- Now here is Madame
Lachaume, Chief Inspector

This is Chief Inspector Maigret

- Your wife?

- Yes.

- Hmm.

Madame, your husband said he
heard nothing during the night

Did you?

- She heard nothing

None of us did.

- Would you be good enough
to leave us, Monsieur?

- Leave?

- I'd like to talk to your wife alone

- I refuse to allow it.

- It's quite in order, Monsieur Lachaume.

I shall be here.

- Madame.

{Maigret coughing)

Now perhaps you can answer my question

- I heard nothing,

but I always take a sleeping
pill before going to bed

- Oh, so you wouldn't
know If, for example,

your husband left the
room during the night?

- Surely, Chief Inspector,
you have no right

to ask such a question

- I don't mind answering

- I don't know.

We have separate rooms

- Oh, I see

When did you last see
your brother-in-law alive?

- It was, must have been about
half past 11:00 last night

I saw him in the corridor
outside his room.

He was in his dressing gown

He said, "Goodnight, Paulette,"
and went into his room

- Is that your usual time for retiring”

Half past 11:007

- No, [ was late

I'd been out.

- Alone?

- My husband's health isn't good

He doesn't like going out in the evening

- Hmm.

And where did you go to all by yourself?

- I went to a cinema
in the Jean se le Sais.

- When did you leave the house?

- About six.

- Hmm.

And when you got back
did you see your husband”?

- No, I went straight to bed

- He was already in bed

- Inspector.
- I suppose, sir

We have separate rooms

- So you didn't speak to him?

- I had nothing to say

- Did you leave your room at all

for any reason during the night?

- I went to the bathroom.

Do I have to give further details”

- Were you on friendly terms
with your brother-in-law?

- Certainly.

- Mmm-hmm.

Was he fond of his son?

- Yes.

It was one of the nice things about him

- And yet in this great, big, old house

he lets him sleep up in the second floor

with an old caretaker

and grandparents who are
practically helpless

How long had the boy been up there?

Well, how long?

Years? Month?

Or weeks?

- About a week.

- Inspector, Madame Lachaume has had

a very distressing night

- Very well,

That's all for the moment, Madame

- As you can see, Chief Inspector,

the family can help you very little.

- Their silence is deafening

{suspenseful music)

- I've come to clean the room.

- It's still occupied.

- Have the photographers been here?

- Yes, I've done all I can

He was killed instantaneously.

Dead a good six hours.

I haven't got the bullet out yet

- Yeah. Catherine.

How long have you worked here”?

- What's that to you”

- 40 years”?

- 40 years, I've been here 50 years.

I took service when my poor lady

was expecting Mr. Leonard

She wasn't 20.

I nursed him myself.

- Did you also nurse Monsieur Armand”?

- What a fool's question

Where would I have got the milk?

{Gadelle laughing)

- So the Lachaume family
have no other children?

- None except Veronique

- Ah, yes, Veronique.

She's not here now?

- Not for a long time.

- Did you hear anything during the night?

- No.

- YWhat time did Monsieur
Leonard usually get up?

- He gets up when he feels like it

- I told you she was an old witch

Ah yes, Mamzelle Veronique

They're like rabbits

Kill one and they pull
another one out of the hat.

That was the first you'd heard
of Mamzelle Veronique, eh?

- Yeah.

I think I'll take a look outside.

{traffic humming)

Lucas!

What a place

It's nice to be out in the garden

- Must be money in biscuits

- Even if they do taste like cardboard

Well, did you find anything?

- There's something by the
factory I'd like to show you

- Which is the window this
character's supposed to

have gone in by?

- Ah, that's this way.

Here we are.

You can see the marks
where the ladder stood.

That's the window.

There are marks on the sill
where the ladder rested.

- Where is he supposed
to have climbed over?

- Down there.

- Are you looking for the place
where the criminal got in?

I can show you.

- Thank you, but we found it.

- Monsieur Lachaume sent all
the employees home at once

Naturally, out of respect.

The ladder is usually kept in the yard

The burglar must have used
it to get into the window

- Why do that when he could put his arm

through the front door?

Have a look over there.

- We can get around this way

- Is this what they call a going concern”

Like some shares in it?

- Not for me.

- Funny place to choose

- You can't push through the hedges

Full of barbed wire.

Goes right around the house and factory

- It's easier than the gate

{traffic humming)

- It seems clear, Chief
Inspector, this is-

- You knows anything
about burglars, Monsieur?

- My practise is chiefly civil

- Right.

Now I'd like to see the bookkeeper

Monsieur Breme.

- Monsieur?

- Chief Inspector Maigret

I'd like to see the contents of the safe.

- Safe. Oh, yes, of course.

- You go and just scout around the keys.

See if you can find someone
who saw that burglar.

- Chief Inspector, I must-

- Protest. I know.

Later, Monsieur

- Ledgers
- Mmm-hmm.

- Some money.

Oh.

To protect the sleeves.

- Ah, yes. (chuckling)

How much money, Mr. Breme?

- Well, I don't know
whether Mr. Lachaume...

- Inspector, is this
becoming an inquisition

into the affairs of the firm?

- If necessary.

- Then I must protest most strongly.

- Yes, of course

{coins clattering)

Well, is that all, Monsieur Breme?

Less than a hundred franks?

Where's the cash reserve?

- What cash reserve?

- Well, you have staff, you have paydays

Where does the money come from”

- You're not obliged to
answer, Monsieur Breme.

- They'll only find out anyway

Mr. Armand gives me a check.

- A personal check”

His own?

- His wife's.

- Oh, I see

Sit down, Monsieur Breme, sit down.

Hmm, now take your time to
answer my question carefully

How long has Madame Paulette Lachaume been

the good angel of this house?

- Ever since she came into it.

Six years ago

It was two years after Madame Marcel died

- Marcel? Who was she?

- She was married to poor Mr. Leonard

- I see.

So six years ago Armand married Paulette.

Mmm-hmm.

Paulette who?

- Zauberski.

- Mmm, she had money?

- Her father was Zauberski
the leather merchant.

- Mmm, she had money.

(Mr. Breme coughing)

So he gave her a big dowery, I suppose?

- Yes, but that didn't last long

- Mmm-hmm.

The biscuits ate up the dowery faster than

the public ate up the
biscuits, eh? (chuckling)

What happened then?

- Every month before payday
she went to her father,

until he died.

- And then she came in to all his money

And now Madame Paulette
holds the purse strings

and the Lachaume family are
obliged to appease to her

- Inspector, I can't see
where all this is leading you

- Mensieur Radell, you were on the scene

even before the police.

- I live nearby in the Place de Leon

When Madame Lachaume telephoned me, I...

- Madame Lachaume telephoned you.

Were you expecting the call?

- You have no right to
ask such a question

- Not a question, Monsieur
Radell, a comment

Very much obliged to you, Monsieur

- Nine.

10.

11.

Now these, these are
what I call good taste.

- [LaPointe] 11 pairs of shoes

- And a spanner.

- Now what did he want that for?

- For putting them on

- Won't be for long, Gaston

I'll come and see you often

It's a very nice school

{car engine cranking)

- They're taking the boy away.

- I don't blame them.

- I'd better ring the patron

You go and stop them.

- Have you got the address of the school

where he's boarding?

Right.

No, no, no, let him go.

I'm glad the poor bey's out of that house

No, leave everything to Torrance

I've got a nice job for you

I want you to find Veronique Lachaume

Yeah.

She left home 10 years ago

There's no photograph.

She may have changed her name.

Should take you a couple of hours.

- Yes, Patron

(phone ringing)

- Yeah.

Who?

Maitre Radell? Good.

Put him on.

Now, maitre, most
obliged you to ring back.

No. no, one or two small points

Who wound up the Zaupeski estate?

Maitre Leon Stonberg, yeah.

Did he see to the
marriage settlement, too?

No? Who did?

Maitre Barbarin.

Address?

Cabel town, yeah

Telephone?

Barsac, 0527.

Right.

Well, who do you represent?

Oh, I see

Just Madame Paulette privately

Yes, of course

Yes, you call on me, too

Au revoir, Maitre.

Barbarin.

Get me Barsac, 0527

(boat horn tooting)

- Well, there's nothing here

There was another barge
tied up, but he's moved on

Let's go and find him

{car rumbling)

This is it!

{barge chugging)

You boys get a part of it, don't ya?

You the skipper?

- [Skipper] Yeah

- Police.

Can I come aboard?

- [Skipper] Okay

- Well, do sit down.

- Thank you, Monsieur.

You must understand, Monsieur,

that though technically
the family's lawyer,

I have hardly ever seen them.

In fact, not since the
elder brother's marriage

- Hmm, did he make a will?

- A will? Leonard?

Heh! What would he leave?

Some broken biscuits?

{Maigret chuckling)

- Who was his wife?

- Marcel Donner.

- Donner.

- Yes, you've heard of Donner
and Mutea, the contractors?

- Oh, yeah

That Donner?

- Yes, he was the managing director

A very wealthy family

- Gave her a big dowery, I suppose

- Yes.

- You wouldn't care to say how much?

- Well, Monsieur

- All right, we'll leave that

Now, as two men on Paulette Lachaume,

her father Zaubeski was
a pretty rough diamond,

I understand.

Wasn't her marriage with
Armand rather surprising”?

- From time to time even
the aristocracy needs

a little new blood.

- And new money?

- Yes, Zauberski was rich.

I have no doubt he was
getting value for his money

- What was he getting”?

- Charm.

- And social status, hmm?

And then she came into
everything when he died

- Yes, he left her everything

But not when he died.

He made a deed of gift to
avoid taxation, you understand

That would be, what?

Oh, five years ago when
he sold out to Hushfield.

- And it's common knowledge
what he made on that deal.

- Quite. Three million franks.

- Patron? I've been to the docks.

Oh.

I beg your pardon

- That's quite all right, Lucas.

Maitre Barbarin's been
good enough to give us

some very useful information
on the Lachaume family

- If I've been of assistance in any way

- Oh, most indeed, you have.

Ah, we're also very indebted
to a colleague of yours

Maitre Radell.

No doubt you know him.

- Yes, but not very well

He's a divorce specialist

Thriving, I regret to say. (chuckling)

Good day.

- Thank you again, Monsieur Barbarin.

- [Barbarin] Not a problem. Good day

(phone ringing)

- Zauberski left three million.

- Three million?

- Maigret.

Yes, Dr. Radell

Ah.

Oh, Dr. Gadelle, yes

Mmm-hmm. Right.

Thank you

Death occurred between two and three.

Instantaneous.

22 bullet.

Three million franks.

That must've made the biscuits look up

{Lucas laughing)

Well, what's your bit of luck”

- A barge, Dutch.

Caught between borders.

Moored last night by the Cade le Gaux

Captain's name was Brewer

- Well, did he see the burglar?

- Eh, yes, he saw the burglar

It seems it was the captain's birth

and there was a party

According to the captain a very good party

with plenty of chintz, plenty
of breaking into a fight

{Lucas chuckling)

A party

Well, after he had six or seven chintz,

he came up on deck to lock at the river

and take in the night air

- Time?

- Eh, just before 10:30.

He remembers the time because he went down

to cut the cake at 10.30
just after he finished

locking at the river.

- Well?

- Well, well, the barge
is more directly opposite

Lachaume's house and factory.

He looked up, saw a man's
head just above the gates

Only the head

Of course the rest of the
man was on the other side

of the gates.

- So?

- So?

Oh, so. Patron

He must've been standing on a ladder.

- Hmm, nice work.

- Oh, that

- And Dutch gin.

(phone ringing)

Go ahead.

Yeah, LaPointe?

Have you found Veronique?

- I've found where she lives.

The Rue Francois Premier.

178, fifth floor.

- Expensive address

Is she married?

- No, but she's got a boyfriend

And Patron, she's also got a job

Place called the Amazon Club.

She's barmaid and hostess.

Not bad.

I'm there now.

- Oh, you are, are you?

Uh-huh, is she there, too?

- She comes on the job in 20 minutes

Shall I wait for you, Patron”

Yes, Patron

- I've got another nice
little job for you

Paulette Lachaume this time.

Her sister-in-law.

Eh, she says that she left
the house at six last evening

I want to know if that's true.

Where she went, who with, how, and why.

Shouldn't take you long.

{car rumbling)

(Jazzy bass music)

♪ Taste all the pleasures ♪

♪ Try all the joys ♪

♪ Play them in secret ♪

♪ With a lot of noise ♪

I No game's as good as the girls ♪

♪ Against the boys ♪

♪ Now some play with fire ♪

I And seme play with toys 2

♪ But you just steps over
the guy you destroys ♪

I And get out in front with the girls 2

♪ Against the boys ♪

I Oh, this old game has
got no rules, girls ♪

I So we make our own, that's swell

. But the boys are not such fools, girls 2

♪ So they make their own as well ♪

♪ Some say it's tasty ♪

♪ Some say it cloys ♪

♪ But I'l sing it tums
on the strokes you employ .*

♪ And no game's as good as the girls ♪

♪ Against the boys ♪

{singer scatting)
(soft jazz music)

- [Waitress] Thank you, sir

- Thank you

- Monsieur.

- Good evening, Patron

I'd like to see Mamzelle Veronique.

- Police again?

We've had one of your lot here already.

- Social call, en?

- This way.

{singer scatting)
(soft jazz music)

I'll send her to you

But don't you go worrying that girl

{singer scatting)
(soft jazz music)

- Here, I didn't order that.

- With Madame's compliments, Monsieur.

- Oh. Okay

- It's about my, my brother, isn't it?

- You're Veronique Lachaume?

- Yes.

- Ah.

Your family told you?

- No.

No, I, I read it in the paper

Suppose you're surprised
I didn't go rushing off

to Le Cade le Gaux.

- Not now that I've seen you

- Mmm, I left my family years ago

I was 18 and they wanted
me fo marry a scrap dealer

- Have you ever been back?

- Never.

What's it like now?

Imagine a burglar wanting
to break into that house.

- Do you believe the burglar story?

- Oh, I only know what I read.

- Hmm.
- Isn't it true?

- Not sure.

Your family are not talkative

- You don't have to remind me.

What's my sister-in-law like?

- Intelligent, intense

- Rich?

- Oh, very

- I bet she thought it was a
big thing marrying a Lachaume

You know, I'm sorry for her.

- Have you ever seen her?

- Only her picture in the
paper when she got married

And...

- Yeah?

- Well, I, I'm not sure

About six weeks ago there was
a woman up here sitting alone

I couldn't swear it was my sister-in-law

What struck me at the
time was the way she kept

staring at me.

- Did you speak to her?

- No.

- Did she come here again”

- No, I, I'd forgotten the
whole thing till just now

- Mmm.

Tell me about your boyfriend

- You don't miss much, do you?

- What's his name?

Jacques Sainval.

He's in advertising

- Serious?

- I'm in love.

Now don't laugh

- Does he want to marry you?

- He's 44 and he's fed
up with living in hotels,

and I'm a very good cook, so I
don't want them to know here.

So the answer could be yes

- I'd be surprised if it weren't,

Does he drive a car?

- A red Floreed.

- Mmm, well, thank you very much

- What for?

- Receiving me so nicely

- You don't think I should be
more shocked about Leonard?

- Not in the least.

- I'm dying to know who killed him

-Socam I.

{singer scatting)
(soft jazz music)

- Thank you, Monsieur.

- Excuse me, I wonder
if you could help me

- Perhaps.

What is it you want?

- Do you recognise the
girl in this photograph?

- She looks happy, doesn't she?

- She's changed

Do you know her?

- No.

- Well, thanks, anyway.

- At your service, Monsieur

{traffic humming)

- [Maigret] Lucas!

- Patron?

- Where is that inventory
on Leonard's bedroom?

- Ah, it's here.

- Bring it in here, will you?

- Fine.

- Ah.

I'm sorry, I've just been
having a session with Comelio

He's always like an
east wind on the liver.

{Lucas chuckling)

Well, any here strike you”

Apart from a 14-inch spanner
weighing four pounds?

- Only the sheets on the bed

- What about them?

- Well, here we are.

The bottom sheet.

Fairly new, excellent quality.

Embroidered with a large initial P.

-P.

- P. Paulette?

- Presumably

- Hmm, bottom sheet embroidered, heh?

- That's the one with
the bloodstains on it.

- Yeah.

Of course old Catherine
would think nothing

of borrowing one of Paulette's best sheets

to make Monsieur Leonard comfortable.

But still, that's not
really what 'm after.

There's something
missing from here, Lucas

What clothes does a man
have in his bedroom?

(phone ringing)

- Lucas.

Ah, hold on

LaPointe.

- Mmm-hmm.

Yeah, have you found anything?

- Yes, a Madame Gaudois

She keeps a little grocery
opposite the Ponacienarde

She saw Paulette meet someone.

- When?

- About guarter to six on Sunday evening

A sports car parked outside the shop

There was a man driving.

He stayed there about 20 minutes

Then Paulette showed up

- Ah.

Did she, um, can she describe him?

- She says about 40, yellow
raincoat, small moustache.

It wasn't either of the Lachaume brothers.

She knows them both by sight.

- [Torrance] Patron!

- Just a minute. Hold on.

- I've got the concierge on the phone

from the Rue Francois Premier.

- Yeah.

- She said that Jacques Sainval

has just gone up to Veronigue's flat

- Good.

All right, thank her for ringing

Go on, LaPointe

- Well, about five past
six Paulette arrived

and they both drove off.

Yes, she's sure it's Paulette

She knows her, too

- Did she recognise the make of car?

A red sports car?

She's positive”?

All right

Now look, I want you
to take Madame Gaudois

to the concierge's lunch
at Veronique's apartment

Wait there till I get there.

- Mmm.

As always, absolutely perfect

You're a genius, Nique

{doorbell ringing)

- Oh dear, who's there?

- I have no idea.

I'm not expecting anyone

- Whoever it is, you get rid of them.

- I'm sorry to come at a time like this

- Oh, it doesn't matter, but do come in

- Thank you

- Jacques, this is
Chief Inspector Maigret

And?

- My assistant LaPointe

Please go on with your dinner

Are you Jacques Sainval?

- lam.

- Is that your red Floreed
in the street below?

-ltis.

Am I being arrested for parking?

- I'm thinking of last
Sunday when it was parked

opposite the Pon National
about six o'clock.

- Last Sunday, definitely not.

- LaPointe.

You are quite sure”?

- Absolutely

- Are you telling the truth, Jacques?

- You two are?

What is all this?

- I hope you'll forgive us

Madame, is this the man you saw on Sunday?

- He's the one, and the car's downstairs

Well, it's the same car.

It's got @ bump on the side.

As soon as the Inspector brought me,

I said now that's the same car that I saw-

- Right, thank you, Madame

LaPointe, will you drive
Madame Gaudois home?

- Yes, Patron

Very much obliged ta you, Madame

- All right, I was there.

What about it?

- Paulette Lachaume was
in the car with you

- Paulette?

- I honestly don't knows
what you're talking about

- When did you first meet her?

- Oh, your sister-in-law

Now wait a minute.

I vaguely remember talking about her.

Am I supposed to know her?

- Oh, Jacques!

Nigue, I swear, I

Well, I hope you realise what you've done

- Mmm, spoiled a very good
dinner by the look of it

Now, you're about to tell
me about Paulette Lachaume.

- I don't even know her.

I don't know what you're talking about.

- I'm waiting

- All right, I met her
about four weeks ago,

quite by chance, in a tea
room off the Madeline.

- Tea room? Hal

- And not by chance, I think.

- You bet it wasn't by chance

Here are your pyjamas and
your shirts and your pants

And if there's anything
else, I'll send it on.

I've been an absolute fool.

Remember I told you that I
thought I'd seen Paulette

at the Amazon?

Well, Jacques called for me that night.

I never discussed my family before,

but that night I did

I told him all about Leonard and Armand,

that Paulette was worth at
least two million franks

I told him, all right.

- But Nique, she's married

- Is that why you introduced
her to Maitre Radell,

the divorce lawyer?

- Ch, you!

- Nique, I swear
- Get out.

Get out.

- Allright, Iwill

But you'll be sorry.

Where's, where's my dressing gown?

- I don't know and I don't care!

Just get out!

(door slamming)

- Charming, I must say

Well, I hope you're satisfied

- Yes, very.

You've just given me the
answer I was looking for

What happened to Leonard's dressing gown?

Come on.

I've got a lot of questions to ask you

up at headquarters.

- Who's in there?

- Madame Paulette and Maitre Radel.

- And who else?

- Go to bed.

You're ill, Mr. Armand

You know what the doctor said.

- Look, you old fool, I'm not a child

That's the second time I
heard the doorbell ring

Now who was it?

Tell me who it was!

- Maigret.

- What does he want?

- Get back to bed.

{suspenseful music)

- Why was your sheet
found on Leonard's bed?

Why was his dressing gown missing?

- I don't know.

Catherine would talk to him.

- Could it be that he
didn't die in his own room?

All right, you were preparing
to divorce your husband

Did you imagine that
he would agree to this?

- He had no choice.

- There were grounds
of an intimate nature.

- And you wanted to save
him the humiliation,

and that explains Jacques Sainval

You were planning to force
your husband to divorce you

That would've been a
catastrophe for the family

A fortnight ago your
nephew Gaston was moved

from a room next to his father's
to one on the second floor.

Did the boy ask to be put up there”?

- No, Leonard insisted

- Why?

- He said he needed a study where he could

work in the evenings

- Hmm.

And was it from then
that you felt frightened?

- Yes.

Then there were other things

When I came into a room
they stopped talking

He seemed embarrassed, as if
they were speaking about me

Once when I was out I
caught sight of Leonard

He was following me

- You told this to Jacques Sainval?

- Yes.

- And Sainvail gave you the revolver?

- Chief Inspector, with your
permission I should like

a short talk with my client.

- Very well, as long as it is short

{suspenseful music)

- Who is that”?

- Her husband.

- Huh?

- What's he up to?

What a place

- The things people agree to, eh?

- Shall be eaten from the inside.

Ah, that's long enough

{suspenseful music)

- And my client has therefore decided

to tell the whole truth
in this unhappy affair.

Her only reason for
keeping silent for so long

was out of pity for the family

- Well, Madame?

- It's difficult to explain

You'd have to lived here
for years to understand

My husband's a sick man

And as my nephew Gaston,
I was fond of him.

That's why I didn't leave the house.

I was afraid.

It was Leonard.

Ever since I knew he was following me,

that's why I let Jacques
Sainval give me the revolver.

- Where is it now?

- I don't know what they did with it.

It was like a nightmare after.

That night when I got back,
it was about half past 11:00

Everyone was in bed

The house was silent, cold

Seemed to close in around
me as I went up to my room

I went to my bedroom and undressed.

I listened a minute at my husband's door.

Sometimes when he was asleep
I could hear his breathing

But he was silent.

I began to be frightened.

I went out to the corridor
to go to the bathroom

I told you that he wished
me goodnight, but he didn't

He just stood there and looked at me

{suspenseful music)

When I came out of the bathroom,

I saw the light under his door.

I wasn't just frightened
anymare, I was in a panic!

(dramatic music)

I wanted to lock my door, but
nothing works in this house

{suspenseful music)

About an hour passed

Then I heard a board creak.

{suspenseful music)

{Paulette screaming)
(dramatic music)

(gun firing)
(Leonard grunting)

(door clicking)

It was Armand who turned on the light.

He was fully dressed

Oh, Catherine was there, too

I was hysterical.

They kept telling me to
keep quiet and stop crying

Old Catherine took charge.

She got Leonard out of his dressing gown

and told Armand to burn it.

She saw the bloodstain on the sheet,

put it on Leonard's bed

She and Armand helped to carry him there.

- Oh. (sobbing)

- Patron.

(Armand sobbing)

- The car outside.

Take him to the infirmary

- All right, come on.

Come on now.

Gently does it.

- Well, ma'am, at least you're free now

- The champagne here's very expensive

- Oh, I think public funds can stand it

- What will they do to poor Armand?

- Put him in a home, I'm afraid.

He's completely unbalanced

- And Paulette?

She did kill Leonard.

- In self-defense.

- I suppose so

- Well, you should be grateful to her

She saved you from Jacques Sainval

- You know what?

That's the one thing I'l
never forgive her for.

{Maigret sighing)