All language subtitles for Maigret S03E06 Love from Felicie_Track03-eng

{upbeat accordion music plays)

{finger snapping)

- Evening, Lapie

She's here again?

- So I see.

- Gonna buy a ticket tonight”?

It's only two francs.

- No I won't be dancing

Goon

get on with your work

I didn't want her to know I'm here.

- Tell you what,

I'l put you scmewhere
where she can't see you

For one leg I'll make it one franc.

- No

(laughter)

{accordion music continues)

(applause)

{slower accordion music plays.)

(slap)

(clatter of table falling)

{gasps from the crowd)

- C'mon.

- [Gentleman In Crowd]
What's the matter with you”?

- It's all right ladies and gentlemen

It's all right

It's all over.

- [Gentleman In Crowd] It's okay

- [Woman In Crowd] Hey!

- I don't want any more trouble outta you

Now get out of here.

{ominous music)

{match strikes on wall)

{mysterious accordion music plays)

(laughter)

Let me help, Patron.

- The things we have tc do in this job

(laughter)

- He looks like a Saint Bernard on a lead.

{mysterious music plays)

{door opens)

- Now what did you do”?

- 1 shut the door.

-Doit

- Some people say please.

- Please.

(door shuts)

{package thuds on table)

- Hey, not there.

In here.

- Please

- Please.

{shopping thuds loudly on table)

- What did you do next”?

- Put my shopping away

-Doit

You didn't

call out to your employer

- No I didn't.

- Didn't want

to look for him.

- No I didn't.

- Wonder where he was?

- Cabbage.

- Hmm.

- I put the cabbage over there

- It seems very strange to me

- How can I remember if
you keep asking questions”?

And why should I wonder where he was?

- Look, never mind about the shopping?

What'd you do next”?

- Went upstairs to take off my hat.

-Doit

Just a minute.

This is as it was, huh?

- As it was.

- Only one glass?

- That's what I said.

I remave my hat.

Then I remember that I haven't opened

Monsieur Lapie's window

Do it?

-Doit

- I open the door

And then I scream.

(screams)

- Where was the gun”

- You knows perfectly
well there was no gun,

or don't you read your
assistant's reports?

Oh no,

Of course you're trying to trap me

That should have gone
into the coffin with him.

It's no use to anyone else

- Where'd he get his wooden leg?

- At sea.

- He enjoyed to sail?

- Good heavens no.

He hated ships

- Hmmm.

- He was clerk to a
ship's chandler at Fecamp

Part of his job was to
check supplies on board

Sailors used to make fun of him.

Ore day,

they gave him too much to drink

and put him to sleep in the rope locker.

When he woke up they were at sea

and the captain wouldn't turn around

- Where did he go”

- Valparaiso around Cape Horn.

That's why he called his house Cape Horn.

- He enjoyed the trip.

- No,

but he got compensation for his leg,

so he was able to retire.

- When?

- Five years ago

- Hmm.

Were you with him then?

- Oh yes

I've been with him for seven years

- You must have been very young

when he first employed you

- Of course, he

- he was only my employer
in a manner of speaking

- oh.

What else?

Your lover?

- Most certainly not!

- What then?

Your father?

- You'll find out.

(sighs)

- Just a minute.

Let me see that.

Rose.

- From the barrel in the cellar.

- Did he have visitors?

- Oh no.

Never.

He didn't like people coming here

- And you?

- My private life is my own affair

- Well you might as well tell me

I shall find out sooner or later.

- Of course you will,

you're so clever

- Do you intend remaining in this house”?

- Yes.

Yes.

I may do

- Well kindly don't leave

without informing the police

- Well what about the
funeral this afternoon?

- Yes.

You may go to that.

- Do you think I killed him?

- What I think is no business of yours

- And what I think is that you're

the most detestable man I've ever met.

- Au revoir.

- Ohl

{door slams)

- I think he did himself in.

- Whew.

No gun

That's right isn't it?

They didn't find any gun.

- Not so far.

Ah Patron.

A beer?

- Yes, please

- Oh, This is Monsieur Bazene,

the mayor's assistant.

- Monsieur

- Monsieur

- And Monsieur Forrentin,

agent for the estate.

- Joseph, two beers.

- You wait and see.

- Hmm?

- Suicide.

That's what it was.

Suicide.

You mark my words

- Why should he want to commit suicide”

I should've thought he lived
a very contented life here

- Contented?

Old peg legs,

contented?

(laughs)

- Ah, he was the worst
grumbler of the lot

- And grasping

That was his trouble.

Couldn't bear anything of
his to go to anyone else.

- He wouldn't even sell the
vegetables he couldn't eat

Had 'em all burnt.

- Mind you,

he was no worse than most
people on the estate

- Oh now, look here.

I'll be

- All right, Forrentin

We know you're prejudiced

You sell them the houses.

But this is what I say.

You see what it is.

They're all elderly

And they've saved up for when they retire

and they've dreamed of a little place

they can settle down.

Am I right?

- Mostly elderly

Yes.

- Well,

they do retire

and here they are

All their money sunk in the house

Not in the country,

not in the town.

It's,

it's,

it's a kind of limbo.

- It's a first-class modern estate!

- But limbo.

And this is what they've lived for.

After a life of hard work,

they've got what they wanted

And then, what else have
they got to look forward to?

So Lapie's funeral is today

Isn't it?

- Mm-hm.

(crying)

- Oh, don't upset yourself Madame Lapie.

It's all over now.

- Oh, he was such a good man

- Would you like to come upstairs?

- No, no,

thank you, my dear,

I'm all right

- Will you excuse me for a moment?

(crying)

- I hope I haven't caught a chill

It was very cold out there.

Still, we have the consolation

of knowing that we've
done the right thing

- Yes, we have, indeed

Very nice

- Yes, very nice, indeed

- Our mantelpiece, I think

Oh, what have we here?

- Better?

- Yes. Thank you

- Do sit down,

I expect you'd like a glass of port,

before you go

- I'd like to know who she thinks she is.

- I dare say she's got into
the habit of running the house

- Oh, sit down, Ernest,

and stop talking nonsense

- Yes, my dear.

- You know perfectly well
she had no right to cast

the first handful of earth on the coffin.

- Well, after all,

she has been with him more
recently than we have

And

- oh, I'll take that

- Oh, thank you

That'll be the police officer

I expect he'll want to see you all.

- Really!

- Yes, itis.

- My name is Emest Lapie

The deceased was my brother.

- I see.

- Emest is head of the family

- This is my wife

- Inspector Maigret.

- Madame.

- and this is my nephew, Jacques Petillon

- Oh, Ernest

You're in the way there

Come and sit here.

- Yes, my dear.

Excuse me.

- Jacques Petillon?

- Eh, my sister's boy.

She died, you know

- Ah.

Have you all come from Fécamp”?

- I work in Paris.

- Work?

Playing in a dance band”?

You call that work?

- I know you don't think of it as work,

but,

well, I

- Would you like the port
before the will is read

or afterward?

l,

Will?

Oh, but surely there's no will.

- Oh yes

- Well excuse me.

I think perhaps I should see that first

Jules Lapie, to be opened after my death

- Why should he bother to make a will?

I'm his brother, the natural inheritor.

- It's family money.

- Mm-hm.

Tis a will,

a very short one

- Well is it witnessed?

- As far as I can see it is valid

in every particular.

Ah. I, Jules Lapie,

being sound of mind and body,

et cetera, et cetera

Taking into consideration
the attitude of my brother

and his wife after my accident.

- There.

What did I tell you?

- Well how about you?

I only said he made
too much fuss about his

- Shhhhh!

- Disgraceful conduct of my nephew,

Jacques Petillon,

- Not surprising.

- I don't see anything disgraceful
in playing a saxophone

- I do hereby bequeath,

all these goods and monies
of which I die possessed to

my maidservant,

Felice Latour.

- No!

- It's a scandall.

- How?

- You'll contest it.

- Well, of course I will

- Does she know?

- Of course she knows.

Where is she?

I'll give her a piece of my mind

Felice?

Felice!

- But where is she?

(upbeat music plays)

{mysterious music plays)

- What a girl!

- [Mechanic] When are you coming back?

- What'd you say”?

- [Mechanic] Come back!

- I'll be back about 6:00.

- Hey!

Hey in the back!

- [Mechanic] Here.

What do you want?

- Can you give me a light?

- Ohl

Oofl

You frightened the life outta mel

{motorcycle zooms)

- (sighs) Can you go a bit faster?

- Mm-hm.

(motorcycle roars)

- Will you drop me here please?

- Aye.

(brakes squeal)

- Thanks very much

{vehicles beep)

(train squeals)

{footsteps clack)

{door closes)

{doorknob rattles)

(hinges squeak)

- Hmm.

(sighs)

{door closes)

- Ahl

- (gasps)

- Well there you are

- Well, it's you.

- You were told not to leave this house.

- But I did.

- Well, where'd you ga?

- Paris.

- Why?

- Felt like it.

- What did you do?

- Why don't you ask that
detective who followed me?

- You didn't bother to stay
and hear the will read.

- No.

- Why?

Was it because you knew what was in it?

- Perhaps.

- Yes or no?

- Perhaps.

Would you like me to
cut holes for your ears?

- Ears?

Is this Monsieur Lapie's hat?

- What?

- Is this his hat?

- Well, whose did you think it was, mine?

- Where'd he keep it?

- When he was in the garden,

he kept it on his head

Now lock here, Felice

- Mademoiselle, if you please

- All right, Mademoiselle,

whatever you like.

Do you realise that this is a murder case?

- Oh yes

- Then please answer my guestions

Now where did he keep this hat,

when it wasn't on his head.

- On that peg

- Not under the bed?

- Under the bed?

What an idiotic question

- Is this yours™?

- You should know.

You searched my room

It's a diary

Look, I don't want to have to read it

But if you tell me nothing,

then I shall be forced to.

There are some references here to a man.

All right

{Inspector sighs)

Thirteenth of January,

where is he?

Fifteenth.

I beseech him.

Fourteenth,

hideous uncertainty

Twenty-third

At last, 24th,

intoxication his lips again

and so on and so on.

Now, who is he?

- Ch, somebody I know

- Where did you meet him?

- Somewhere.

- Mademoiselle, you are
making things very difficult

- For you?

- No. for youl

- Then why are you getting so annoyed?

- Why am I getting so-

Gah!

- Well, I asked her what she wanted

and she said it was urgent,

so I gave her a lift.

It was quite an amusing ride, really.

She's a bright little thing

Attractive, too.

- Pastis, please

- She will wear these funny hats

That's why,

that's how she got her nickname, you know

The parakeet

Well, as you know,

I dropped her at the Metro

and then all hell broke loose.

You know what he's like in the rush hour.

- (detective laughs) Ah, Patron!

Is something wrong?

- I needed that.

- This is Monsieur Louvet,
who gave your girl a lift

to Paris this morning

- Yeah, I run the garage
around the corner

I drive into Paris every Thursday

- Does she know that?

I couldn't say I only know her by sight.

- Are you in trouble with
the police again, Louvet?

- No, of course not,

Drinking with them.

Now it's my turn

What are you gonna have?

- Not just at the moment, Monsieur.

What happened?

- She spent her time on the Metro.

You were expecting trouble, perhaps?

Lucas, I'd rather have
one of my real hard cases

up in front of me than this girl

- Do you think she did it?

- She's done something

Danged if I know what

Look, you go and keep an eye on the house

I'll send a local man
to relieve you later

- Aye.

- [Drinker] Now what
about a game of cards, eh?

- [Second Drinker] That's a good idea

Will you make a fourth, Monsieur?

- No thank you, Monsieur

I've got some thinking to do.

- [Drinker] Well, what're we gonna play?

- Do any of you know Felice”?

- What, the parakeet?

- Mmm, parakeet?

- I guess old Peg Leg called her that

because of the hats she wore.

My parakeet.

- Was he fond of her?

- Some say

- Oh, it's just a story.

- Yes.

But what about the rooms?

It's true.

Did you hear about the boy
who came down here to stay?

- What boy?

- Peg Leg's nephew

Oh, Jacques Petillon.

- Yes, that's the one

Well, about 18 months ago

Eighteen months?

- [Drinker] Two years.

- Well, two years he came down here

ta stay for his health

- [Drinker] Sure.

Blows a saxophone in a nightclub.

- Which club?

- Oh, some nightclub.

- Oh, he's harmless

- Yes, but that's not the point.

About the rooms.

Have you been in the house”

I mean all around it.

- Yeah.

- Well there's a bedroom and a box room.

Yes?

- Mm-hm.

- Here, let me show you

Here you are.

There's the box room

and here's Lapie's bedroom

with a passageway here and across

the passageway there's another bedroom,

with a smaller bedroom leading off it.

Silly way to design a house.

- Well, it's suitable for
couples with young children

- Yes, but Peg Leg didn't
have any young children

but he had Felice and his nephew

And what do you think he does?

He moves out of his room,

into Felice's bedroom

and puts his nephew into his room

Yes, his nephew

And Felice has to sleep
in the small bedroom,

which means,

well you see what it means.

- Means that she had to go
through Peg Leg's bedroom

to get the recom that she was to sleep in

- Well, why not?

- I say nothing on nothing
and nothing do I impute

But.

- Well, they went back to their own rooms

when the boy left

- If you ask me,

when there was anybody else in the house,

Old Peg Leg liked all his belongings

where he could see them.

- Yeah, that's right

He was a true Norman.

Now come on.

Let's get on this game

- All right.

- Papa's making you work tonight, eh?

- You knows once they get
started with the cards

- Do you ever get a night off?

- Sometimes.

- Do you know Felice?

- But of course,

she's my best friend

- Oh,

do you know her other friends?

Are there any other friends?

A man?

- I think you should
ask her that Monsieur.

- Well, never mind about that.

Do you go out together?

- The cinema,

dancing sometimes.

- Where do you go dancing”?

- The Guingette, down by the river,

La Marine.

- Who do you dance with?

- Anyone who asks us

- Give me a jeton.

Where's the telephone?

- It's in the corner.

{telephone rings)

- LaPointe.

Yes, Patron

- [Maigret] Have you had a message

from Lucas about Petillon?

- Jacque Petillon.

Yes, I have

- [Maigret] What have you found?

- He, he lives in a
hotel on the Rue Lepic,

but they haven't seen
him since the funeral.

- Well he blows the
saxophone in some nightclub

His hotel will know which one.

I want you find him,

but don't let him find you.

And call me in the morning

No, not tonight

I'm off to a dance hall.

(detective whistles)

(car door slams)

- Anything happen?

- Nothing.

Any leads from the dance hall?

- I'm not sure.

She got a bit rough with someone

who asked her for a dance the other night

But, I don't know

I knew it.

- What does this mean, Patron?

- Come inside.

Felice?

Felice?

- Why was the glass in the garden?

- I was dead certain the old man

was drinking with someone else.

I thought she was lying,

now I know.

Gah.

Felice? Fel-

Sure she's here?

- She looked out of the window
a couple of minutes ago

She must've seen you coming.

- All right.

I'll find her.

Now, ah,

look, I want you to take
that to fingerprints

then come back here and wait at the cafe.

- Will you be there”?

- I'm not sure.

I've got to go and see
the Pelican Club first.

- The Pelican?

- Yes.

That's where the nephew
blows his saxophone

- Right.

I'll be at the cafe about 5:00.

(Felice sobs)

- Felice.

Hey.

Don't cry.

- Go away.

Don't touch me.

- No need to cry now

- I'm so miserable.

- There, there, there, there

What's it all about?

- That's all you care about isn't it?

Asking questions

(Felice sobs)

- All right, I'l ask you some

- Whey did you throw the
other glass out of the window?

- What glass”

- Who was drinking with old Lapie

when you were out shopping?

The nephew?

- No, no, not Jacques

- You like Jacques?

- I don't mind him.

- Is he your lover?

- Jacques?

What an absurd idea.

- Then who is?

- That'd be telling

- Felice, listen to me.

- Yes.

- Look here, I've been
very patient with you

- I still don't like you

- Don't you understand?

A man has been murdered in this house.

Your employer

You were the last person to see him alive.

You inherit all his money

In fact,

you're the only person
to profit by his death

I aught to arrest you here and now

- Oh, go on then

(Thunder crashes)

(Felice screams)

- It's only thunder.

- Oh yes,

yes it is, I know.

(Thunder crashes)

Oh, I hate thunder!

- The thunder won't do you any harm.

Now, Felice,

there's one thing we know for certain

about this murderer.

- Is it that he committed a murder?

- That he knew Monsieur Lapie

well enough to go up to his room with him

- Why?

- Why?

Because he was killed there.

And what's more,

he'd only just gone up there with him.

- Howr'd you know?

- Because he was either wearing

or carrying his hat.

- So it must've been me,

is that it?
- I never said that.

(thunder crashes)

(Felice screams)

- Oh, I'm so afraid

- There's nothing to be afraid of.

- Oh, there's everything.

There's you,

and the murder,

and the thunderstorm.

Can't you see how wretched
and miserable I am?

You must and yet all you do is

ask me questions

- What's the name of the man

whose face you slapped at the Guingette?

- There you are, you see

Another question!

What have I done to you to be tormented?

(thunder crashes)

(Felice screams)

Is it because I'm a woman?

- What?

- Is that it?

Are you like Forrentin?

- Forrentin?

- The, the house agent.

You must've seen him down at the cafe.

- What about him?

- Well, you can imagine
what he wants being a man

That's what you're after

I'd much rather you
said so straight out and

- Oh, no

- Where are you going?

- To work.

- You're leaving me here alone

- Well, that's what you want

- Oh, wait

But the thunderstorm.

- I didn't

- What if somebody breaks in”?

- There's a police
officer across the road.

You can call him.

- Oh, I hate you

I hate youl

I hate youl

(thunder crashes)

Oh, come back!

- Patron.

Have a drink?

- Beer.

- Beer.

- Come and sit down.

Is he here yet?

- Arrived ten minutes ago

- Does he knows you're here?

- Spotted me before he
walked out last night

- You've been with him ever since?

- In and out of every
low bar in the district.

- Is he drunk?

- Alittle.

He doesn't go there to drink.

- Thanks.

Just here for a drink.

Well, go on.

- I'm sure somebody is looking for him

He's terrified.

He can't stay in the same place for more

than a few minutes at a time.

Keeps looking around as if he's expecting

to see someone.

- Is he frightened of us?

- I don't think so.

I think he wants to talk to us,

but he doesn't dare.

He can't go on like this much longer

He's got to break down soon

- He's there now.

You can go now

Get some sleep

- I must talk to you.

I must tell you what happened

- Yes

- I tried to tell the other one,

the one that's been following me,

but I didn't know how.

I didn't know how to start.

- Start with Felice.

- Felice?

- Do you love her?

- Me love Felice?

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

I want to tell you

{Gun shoots)

{Customers scream)

- Call police headquarters.

Sergeant Lucas

Get an ambulance.

Jacques, Jacques,

what did you want to tell me about?

- About

- Yes?

- About the fiddler.

- [Waiter] He's on the line.

- Lucas?

Maigret.

I'm at the Pelican Club.

There's been a shooting here

This is what I want you to do

{door knocking)

- What happened to you?

- I hope you're happy.

- You fall downstairs?

- Fall?

Oh, very funny

Oh, ha ha.

Fall

Let me tell you

There was a detective
standing outside my door

The murderer forced his
way in here and struck me

- What?

- No thanks to the police,

he didn't kill me.

Ooh.

- Now just sit down Felice

and tell me what the whole is

about.

- Well, after supper,

I closed all the doors and
windows and went to bed.

- What time?

- After the thunderstorm
that you left me alone in

I um, I read for a bit.

Until midnight, perhaps.

And then I put out the light.

I was trying to get

to sleep when I heard a
movement outside my room

- So of course you opened your
window and called for help

- No.

- Why not?

- Well, I didn't choose.

- Or didn't you want the man found”

- Perhaps that was it

-Goon.

- And I got up very quietly
and tiptoed to the doer

I could hear him moving
about in the room opposite.

- Lapie's room?

- Yes.

He knocked over a chair

and then he started to
move out towards me

I opened my door

- With a murderer on the other side?

- And the moment I'd opened it,

he hit me in the face and ran out

through the side door

- What did you do?

- Well, I was dizzy, so I lay down

Then I went to sleep

- Without bothering to
tell the man on duty.

- Well, I knew you'd be
along, sooner or later,

- You thought I'd believe you?

Well, I don't.

- Come and look at this.

Do you think I did this?

- Oh.

My apologies.

Hmm.

My word, you do upset people, don't you?

Well, I wonder if he found
whatever he was looking for?

Whoever he was.

Job for the fingerprint boys here.

Hmm.

Are you sure you didn't see who it was”?

- No, no, no

It was very dark.

- It wasn't who you
think it was, you know

It wasn't Jacques.

He was shot at eight o'clock last night

- Jacques shot.

He's not dead.

- No, he's not dead

- Oh, thank God

- But he's very ll

- Oh, Jacques

Oh, I must go to him at once

But where is he?

In a hospital?

Which hospital?

Oh, it's all your fault

- I didn't shoot him.

- No, but you let him be shot

- Well, we'll find the man who did it

- Not by bullying me.

Oh, poor Jacques

How is he?

- He's very ill

- Chief Inspector Maigret

Can we come in just for a minute?

- Well, just for a minute

- Oh, Jacques!

- Quiet, please!

- Oh, Jacques

Does it hurt?

Are you all right?

Jacques?

Jacques

Will he get better?

You must make him better.

Here's some,

here's some money.

And I'll bring you a lot mare

if you'll only cure him

- Really, Mademoiselle!

- That's not necessary

- What can I do for him?

- I love him so much.

None of these things are any good

- Perhaps there are some children

who'd like the sweets and fruit.

- Yes, yes give them to the children

That'd be best,

but you can have this

because I know you'll do
your best to cure him

But what can I do?

- You can go home, Mademoiselle,

and leave us to our job

- Which includes sympathy

Come on Felice, let's
go and have some lunch

Two dozen (speaks French)

Then what?

Do you like (speaks French.)

- Oh, no, no, no

Not fish.

Poulet au riz.

- Yeah, and for me

- I never eat fish.

It reminds me reminds
me of (speaks French),

- Which you don't like?

- Which I hate.

It was seven of us in my family

My father drank

So I had to go out to work early.

- For Monsieur Jules Lapie

- When I was 15.

- He was not your father.

Or your lover.

- No.

- Yet he was jealous because you were

one of his possessions, mmm?

Is that why he made you change rooms

when Jacques came to stay?

- No other reason.

- Why did Jacques come to stay”?

- Well, the old man met
him in Paris one day

He hadn't got a proper job

He was loading vegetables in the market

- And a bottle of number 23.

So Jacques came to stay.

How long ago”

- He came for six months.

- When?

- Fifteen months ago, eh”

And when did he leave?

Why did he leave?

- Well, they didn't get on

Jacques wanted to play
saxophone all the time

- I suppose it was while
Jacques was staying with you,

that you grew fond of him.

Was he your lover?

- I refuse to say.

I told you I wouldn't answer questions,

And I won't.

I knew you were only being nice

to me for what you could get

out of me.

- Felice, sit down

- And be insulted and
suspected and tortured

No.

Eat the oysters yourself.

- Pardon, Monsieur

That lady,

it's most extraordinary coincidence

Do you know her name?

- I know your face

The last time we met your
shop shopping been burgled

- Oh yes

Yes, of course, yes

- More trouble.

Yes.

That lady

- What lady?

- The one who was sitting here.

- Oh yes

What about her?

- Well, it's really a
matter for the police.

- Well I am a police officer

Remember?

- What?

Oh yes, of course

- Well, sit down, Monsieur

Tell me all about it.

- Well, you see,

I stood next to her in the Metro

two days ago

- Yeah.

- You see, I worked around the comer,

(speaks French)

You know the sports shop

Oh, but, of course, you know that.

And I had to go to the bank, you see

Well, it was very crowded in the,

in the Metro.

And we were pressed close together

- Oh.

- For the moment I thought.

Oh, well, no matter.

- Yes, yes.

You stood next to her in the Metro.

- Well, after she got out,

I found something in my pocket

I really haven't known what to do with it.

You see my employers wouldn't like

my name in the papers

and my wife would be terrified

- Oh, Oh, what was it?

- This.

- Good, is it the lab?

No. no, we don't want it around here

Send it around the office.

All right, Jorges”

Good.

Bye. Bye.

- Another beer, Lucas?

- Yes. Thank you

- Two beers, Joseph

- [Joseph] Two beers

- Testing said it was the
same gun that killed Lapie

- But of course it was.

Otherwise, there would be no point

in her hiding it, would there?

- You wanted to know, Patron

- Yeah.

Sorry, Lucas

Anyway, the only trouble is
that she didn't shoot him.

I don't think her boyfriend did either

But she does.

- That only leave this Fiddler character.

- Yeah, Fiddler

- He came out of the
Sante prison last week

after doing a year for his
share in a nightclub holdup

(speaks French)

- Ahh, Luigi the Corsican was in on that.

- He got five years but the
Fiddler only drove them

- No money recovered

- Hello.

Hey, Joseph, want to buy a lobster?

- Where'd you get it?

- My brother brought it
down from (speaks French),

no good giving it to my wife,

it'll bring her out in spots

- And the same with me.

- Il give you 10 francs for it

- Done.

Ah, thanks

[Joseph] Do you want to eat it here?

- No, thank you

I've got plans for this

- This one's for you

I don't like fish.

I thought I told you so at lunchtime

- What you say at lunchtime, Felice,

is sometimes quite different

from what you say at dinner time.

Why didn't you remind me?

- You didn't ask to be reminded.

You just walked in,

handed me the lobster and

said we'd have it for dinner.

All I dois what I'm told.

- All you'll do is what
you think you'll do.

- Why not?

I'm free for the first time in my life

- If you're not careful,

you'll soon be dead for the
first time in your life.

- You're trying to frighten me

- Now.

Where was the pistol?

- I'm not frightened

- Was it beside the body?

Well, let's say it was beside the body.

That means that it
could have been suicide.

- No it couldn't.

He hadn't got a pistol

- Come here.

- I haven't admitted anything

- Oh, yes you have.

By putting a gun into the pocket

of a complete stranger in a Metro train

Now, where was the pistol?

- There, by the wardrobe

Oh look, it's all crooked

Those men who came to take fingerprints

couldn't even put it back straight

- Yeah.

They didn't get any fingerprints either

Here, let me do it

- Oh.

It's heavy.

- I know.

Last time we had to get a man in to help

- Last time?

When Jacques came to live here,

the old man gave him this room

He wanted to keep all his own things

So he had to move everything
across into my room

- Yes. I heard about that.

Put you in the little room and
keep you away from Jacques

- He did not.

You have the mind of & policeman

- At last, a compliment

Well, what did Jacques do?

Keep his clothes in the suitcase?

- Of course not.

He used the other wardrobe.

- What other?

- The one in the box room.

It was quite ridiculous

Moving them both.

They were exactly the same

- They were, were they?

Show me.

- Yes.

They are exactly the same.
- The old man got them both

in a sale.

They were going cheap

- Now let me get this straight

When Jacques stayed here,

he stayed in that room

And while he was here

this wardrobe was moved into that room.

- Yes.

Ah, here we are

- Hey!

What you doing?

- Here we are.

- Money?

- Money

Let's see how much.

- But where did it come from?

What made you think of looking up there”?

Whose is it?

Ohh, do you think it was

on top of the wardrobes
when he bought them”?

Oh, well, why didn't you say something?

- Let's have some wine.

- Ohhhhh.

- In fives.

- Inspector, I don't understand

Why don't you explain?

- Thirty, 40, 45, 50,000 francs

- Fifty thousand.

Well, whose is it?

- Well, I should say, if's
been in the possession

of a man known as the Fiddler.

He used to play in a dance band

Least he did 18 months ago

- But what's it doing here?

- Santé.

I'm hoping that before the night's out

somebody will tell me that.

Now, let's get on with this lobster

Oh, by the way, Felice.

Although I'll be staying the night here

- Staying the night

- Well, don't worry

You won't be disturbed.

At least not by me

- I detest you

- Do you?

I adore you, Felice

{door opens)

{ominous music plays)

- Good morning, Fiddler

I've been waiting for you

(handcuffs rattle)

Get it in there.

(handcuffs click)

Wake up, Fiddler

You can go whenever you like

but take the sofa with you

{door closes)

- Good morning, Felice.

{dishes rattle)

- Coffee.

It's only coffee, I'm afraid

Can't go out for croissant.

I can't leave our guest

- What are you doing?

What's happened?

Who is the guest”?

- The murderer.

- What!

- Nowy, now, now

Quiet, quiet, quiet

He's all manacled to the sofa.

And it's nobody you know

- So, Jacques isn't guilty”?

- Oh yes

Jacques is guilty.

OF entertaining a friend

one night when the old man was away.

Hey,

you get on with your
coffee and I'll tell you

the whole story

Now he's a character known as the Fiddler.

He used to play in a dance band,

with Jacques

And then he's taken to robbery.

- The money.

- Yeah.

He was on the run.

And he had to hide it in the
top of Jacques' wardrobe

- Jacques didn't know.

- And then the Fiddler was caught

and he went to prison for a year

And when he came out,

naturally he wanted his money

but Jacques had left the house

So first of all, he tried to get

to know you down at the dance hall.

- That, that creature who

- Whose face you slapped?

Yeah Well, it didn't work

So then he has to go

and get hold of that idiot Jacques again.

- He is not an idiot.

- Oh yes he is

He's swallowed a story about the Fiddler

having left something in Lapie's room.

And he actually agreed
ta keep the old man busy

while the Fiddler entered
through the front window

The old man had sharp ears.

- Too sharp

- He heard him.

He went up to his room
and the Fiddler shot him

shot him and ran out through the back

and Jacques escaped through the front.

And you saw him on the
way back from shopping?

- I didn't dare tell you

I couldn't.

- Because you thought he was the murderer

- 1 didn't see who else it could be.

- Hey, coffee is getting cold

- I've never had coffee in bed before.

- Felice, does Jacques
know that you love him?

- Why do you ask such a hateful questions?

- Never mind.

He will find out soon enough

- You're not to tell him.

- I shan't see him.

Nobody will visit him but you

- Inspector Maigret?

I'm sorry I've been so much trouble.

- Trouble?

You've been no trouble at all.

{door closes)

(Felice sighs)