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♪ I'll never fall in love ♪

♪ Again ♪

♪ Since you said goodbye ♪

♪ I'll never feel that thrill again ♪

♪ Why should I try ♪

♪ I'll wake ♪

♪ And face ♪

♪ Another lonely day ♪

♪ Seems like that's the only way ♪

Gwenda...

Can you...

Retype on the chapter on Adichie?

Yes Mr Argyle, it's in the tray.

Ah, good.

Good.

Then tomorrow we can move on,

onto the modern era.

Yes Mr Argyle.

♪ Why should I ♪

♪ Care ♪

And could you turn that off please Gwenda?

♪ The sun will shine ♪

♪ There may be stars above ♪

[Rachel] Oh god.

[Jacko] Why do we have to go through this charade mother,

where I have to confess my sins to you

like you're some sort of female pope.

Give me the money and I'll go.

[Rachel] What's it for Jacko?

[Jacko] It doesn't matter what it's for, does it?

[Rachel] Is it for business, drugs--

Is that Jacko again?

[Rachel] How do I know it's not illegal?

- [Jacko] It is not illegal. - That's Jacko.

[dramatic music]

[Rachel] Just tell me what it is you need.

[Jacko] Mom, do you think that I would come here

and humiliate myself again,

if it wasn't important.

Look, if I had anywhere else to go,

don't you think I have any shame mother?

[Rachel] No, I don't Jacko,

I think you're shameless.

Always treating me like I'm a bank,

I've had to dig you out of every hole you've--

[Mary] Philip.

Thank you darling.

Rachel] That is not the point [mutters],

The next time I see you--

I wonder how much he needs this time?

Whatever your brother wants,

she will give it to him.

How much?

Two and a half thousand pounds.

Don't do that.

And if I don't give him the first 500 tomorrow,

he's going to kill me.

Some of the thugs that work for him

will pour a bottle of whiskey down my throat,

throw me behind the wheel of a car

and roll me into a bloody crossing.

And the next time you see me I'll be dead,

is that what you want?

I know you keep that sort of money in the house.

I'd like to meet this bookmaker friend of yours please.

That's not how it's gonna work.

I am telling you how it's going to work boy.

I want this bookmaker to come here,

to Sunny Point tomorrow.

And if what you are saying is true,

he and I will discuss a way of repaying your debt.

[Jacko] Don't mess with this man mother,

you don't know him.

What are you doing Kirsten?

I am standing here listening to the argument.

Mother, this man is not going to come here,

like a kid after school to discuss some playground spat,

he's going to come up here with a gun.

[dramatic music]

This is not a game mother, give me the money,

I have nowhere else to go.

[drawer rustling]

Will this ever end Jacko?

All the advantages you had, all the money

we've all poured into you, and what have you become?

A little man.

You bitch.

- Give it to me. - No.

No more.

Give it to me, I need it.

I think you should leave now Jacko.

Give me the money now, or I will kill you.

[dramatic music]

[Rachel grunting]

[Micky] Oh my God.

[Bobby] Jacko!

[Jacko] Give me the key.

[Bobby] Get off, stop it, that's enough.

I swear to God, she is dead.

Get out Jacko!

Go on.

Jacko.

Jacko wait.

I'm a dead man Hess.

Calm down, come on, lets go for a walk baby.

[mellow music]

[door lock clicking]

[Leo] Has he gone?

He's gone.

[door creaking]

Will you tell your person to leave please?

Sorry?

I'll take the post.

[suspenseful music]

Nine o clock, tomorrow afternoon.

Yes sir.

[clears throat]

I didn't give him the money this time Leo.

No.

Jacko's a bad lot,

he always has been.

Have I done the right thing?

Rachel, you've always done exactly

what you wanted with these children.

I think it's a bit late to start asking for my advice.

That's all right Leo.

Once again I will try to do the right thing

by your children.

And I will subsidise you as you write

your substandard books, which no one ever wants to publish.

And I will make all the difficult decisions for our family.

You're the biggest parasite of the lot Leo.

[mellow music]

Mother.

Not now Bobby.

We really need to confirm

what we're doing about the city trusts.

Sort it out yourself Bobby.

Sometimes I feel I should never have bothered

with you and your brother.

[door slamming]

[clock chiming]

[dramatic music]

[clock ticking]

[mellow music]

[dramatic music]

Ah, Kirsten.

Have you

seen Mary?

Your wife will be down at the lodge Mr Durant.

[Philip] Right.

Maybe you should go to her.

I think I'll just have a little drink first.

[dramatic music]

[woman screaming]

[Kirsten hyperventilating]

Oh god.

Is she dead?

Go and fetch Leo.

[Kirsten hyperventilating]

[phone chimes]

[phone dial turning]

Hello?

[Woman On Phone] What number sir?

I need the police.

[upbeat music]

I don't know what you're smiling for Mr Argyle,

I have several witnesses who heard you threaten to

kill your mother an hour and a half before she died.

So what?

I didn't do it.

These same family members also testify

that you attacked her,

because she wouldn't pay off your gambling debt.

Look, everyone between here and Bristol knows

that the old girl kept a stash in her desk.

Now, I'm not a detective,

Inspector Huish, I wouldn't dare presume.

But the whole thing looks like a burglary to me.

Mom was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Which the coroner says was about eight o clock.

Was it?

Where were you at eight o clock Jacko?

Hitchhiking...

Between Redkey and Drymouth.

Who was driving the car?

I don't know,

he was about 35, dark haired,

drove a dark blue Morris Minor,

talked a lot about eels.

Very boring, what can I say?

He dropped me outside the pub at 8:15.

You're a cocky little swine, aren't you?

From time to time.

Is this yours?

Yeah.

The Southern Bank in Drymouth issued these two £5 notes

to your mother yesterday morning.

Their serial numbers are from the batch of £100

that your mother collects each month

to top up the float she has on the estate.

Yes, she gave it to me after we argued.

Your family are sure she didn't give you any money Jacko.

Well she did, so that's that.

Isn't it?

Look, what you've got to do now, mate,

is your job.

You've got to find the guy who gave me the lift.

But your alibi's a lie, isn't it?

I did not murder my mother.

You've lived a life of lies, haven't you Jacko?

[upbeat music]

[footsteps approaching]

[keys jingling]

[scraping sound in distance]

Dear Miss Marple, it's a while since I wrote,

but, as you know, I regard the time I spent

in service with you as the time from which my life began.

You gave me the confidence to train for a profession,

and seek my place in the world.

I hope I don't embarrass you, Miss Marple,

when I write that you are the closest to family I have.

Fate has dealt me a curious hand since I left you,

but I am at last to be married.

Having found a happiness in life,

which I always thought would allude me,

I would love it if it were possible

for you to share my day of happiness with me.

Dearest Gwenda, of course I remember you,

I would love to come to your wedding.

As I grow older, nothing brings me more pleasure

than to see young people I am fond of find happiness.

Of all the girls who have come to me from the orphanage,

it was you who underwent the greatest transformation.

But I have often wondered what opportunities

you have made of your life.

As the wedding is on Saturday,

could I possibly travel down to Devon

early on the Thursday morning?

To give me time to recover from the train.

Oh Leo.

Leo!

She can come.

Oh, how wonderful.

[exclaiming cheerfully]

When's she coming down?

[mellow music]

Yes next we have...

The arctic fox, that's Vulpes lagopus.

There she is, cuddly little lass,

unless that is you actually try to cuddle her,

when she might basically...

Bite your hand off [chuckles],

so I suppose she's not cuddly at all really.

No, the thing that's interesting, actually,

really interesting about Vulpes lagopus,

is it's comparison to the more common European fox.

Let's have a look at her.

There we...

[laughter]

No.

Sorry that's...

I do apologise, that's actually Ms Faberge,

she's a colleague of mine on the...

Haze whatchamacallit.

And, there we go.

Vulpes.

Now...

As we can see these two foxes have adapted to live in

very different climates.

And the former one, here,

is believe me very furry,

and has a good supply of body fat.

What also helps her to survive in a very frigid environment

is her short muzzle and very thick ears.

[laughter]

I'm so sorry.

I do apologise.

That's, yes, Marjorie.

I do hope you're not with us tonight.

I'm sorry.

[jazzy music]

Fascinating talk Dr Calgary.

Thank you, I do hope so, thank you.

Most indeed doctor, most incriminating.

Great.

Very kind of you.

[paper rustling]

[dramatic music]

[upbeat music]

Miss Marple.

Gwenda.

Oh how lovely to see you again.

Yes.

Well, first of all I must apologise for the weather.

And I also must apologise, thank you, for the...

The final mode of transport,

needed to get you over to Sunny Point.

But you see the house is on a little island.

And, yes, the only way of getting Across

is on one of the little boats,

which are all named after Leo's children actually,

the boats.

Yes, well, slow down.

Let me have a look at you.

You look wonderful.

It's been too long.

I'm so glad that you could come Miss Marple,

I can't tell you.

You see Leo have five grown up children.

Five?

Yes, and you know how intimidating large families can be,

especially when they're all hulled up together.

But at least I'm going to know

that I've got one person on my side this weekend.

Oh.

Oh, it's a bit muddy, isn't it?

Yes, very, mind your step.

Gwenda, is this the same Sunny Point

that had a tragedy a couple of years ago.

Yes.

Yes, that's right.

Rachel's death was a terrible thing.

But it's behind us now.

Anyway, mind your step Miss Marple on this duckboard,

which is very slippy.

I do hope you're going to be

comfortable in this Miss Marple.

[Bobby] I'd say you got it.

- [Micky] Mind the corner. - [Bobby] You mind the corner.

Hold on, Tina.

Tina!

- [claps hands] - Yes sir, yes Bobby sir.

Who put these towels here?

You did Sargent major, sir.

- Did I? - You did Bob.

Well...

No, I want the roses in here

and I want these ones to go in the dining room.

Well, can't the new maid to it?

Get Micky to ask her,

he's always looking for a chance to talk to her.

Hey.

Oh no, oh, Hester.

No.

We're using the old dinner service tonight,

and we're saving the best for the wedding day itself,

aren't we? [claps hands]

Yeah.

How much has all this cost Bob?

It's great you've arranged it all.

Well dad deserves it done right.

Hello everybody.

Hi.

You must be the much spoken about Miss Marple.

Am I, oh dear [chuckles].

So, these are Leo's sons, Bobby.

[Bobby] Hello.

[Miss Marple] Hello Bobby.

- Nice to see you. - [Gwenda] And Micky.

- Pleased to meet you. - Micky.

And how are you mother?

Oh don't...

May I take your bag Miss Marple?

Oh, thank you.

Oh, and these are our two younger sisters,

this is Hester and Tina.

- Hello. - [Miss Marple] Hello Hester.

Hello.

Tina.

Let's see if Miss Marple can spot the family resemblance.

[laughter]

You see, Leo and Rachel's children are adopted.

Ah,

I see.

The forecast says it's going to rain all weekend Gwenda,

you do realise that, don't you?

[Bobby] This is Philip, he's married to our sister Mary.

But we ignore him, he's grumpy.

I'm the grump's wife, Mary.

So many people.

Oh, and here...

Here,

is Leo.

Welcome to Sunny Point Miss Marple.

Thank you.

[suspenseful music]

[Hester] House?

[Bobby] Steeple?

[Hester] Hat?

- [Gwenda] Broom? - [Hester] Top?

Picking up...

Up and down.

[group shouting suggestions together]

Eeyore!

Eeyore?

The House on Pooh Corner.

Yes.

[laughter and applause]

Philip has smiled.

This is a truly momentous day [chuckles].

[wind blowing loudly]

[lightning cracking]

- [Hester] Round? - [Tina] Turning?

Here we go round the mulberry bush?

Oh.

[Hester] Spinning?

- [Micky] Turn around? - [Bobby] Carousel?

[wind blowing loudly]

[laughter]

- Dizzy? - Do the whole thing Gwenda,

you're just making a hole in the carpet.

The maid's just left the room Micky.

[group oohing]

Can we concentrate on Gwenda?

[imitates ghost]

[Bobby] What is it, a plane?

- A bird? - [Tina] What's she doing?

A spectre?

A ghost story?

The Tale of the Scrooge?

Yes.

[Gwenda screams]

[Hester] Who's that?

[Kirsten] Well, let the poor man in.

[Hester] I thought it was a ghost.

[Mary] How did he get here?

How on Earth did he make it here on a night like this?

[Kirsten] Poor man.

[Bobby] Who are you?

Thank you, I'm so sorry.

I'm very wet.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Is Mr...

Argyle,

Mr Leo Argyle in the house?

Yes.

My name is Arthur Calgary,

and I'm here to tell you.

- Here. - Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much.

You're very kind, thoughtful lady.

Yes.

I'm here to tell you that

there is no possible way that your son,

Jacko, committed that murder, sir.

He's innocent,

and I can prove it.

[suspenseful music]

Yes, I'm a scientist,

at Cambridge University.

But for the last two years,

I've been in the Arctic.

You've been on the Hayes-Bentley expedition?

Back a month, yes.

But, we left, you see, on...

On the 17th of October, this is two years ago,

but the day before,

the 16th...

I was here in Redkey saying goodbye to nanny.

Who's retired to a home in the area,

actually nanny's sister's

been very ill recently with psoriasis and--

We don't need to hear about nanny's sister.

No.

You were in the area the night my wife was murdered?

Which was at about eight o clock in the evening?

Yes.

Well, at that time I was

driving between Redkey and Drymouth.

In a dark blue Morris Minor.

That's right.

And between ten to and quarter past,

I gave a ride to a hitchhiker.

No, most eels, well, most [mutters],

prefer to dwell in shallow waters,

and will hide at the

bottom layer of the ocean in tiny holes.

Have you got the time?

My god.

You're the alibi.

I'm the, yes, the whatchamacallit, yeah....

Who they never found,

and they never found me because by the time

they started looking I was halfway around the world

looking at lemmings.

Dr Calgary's with you now?

I told him to wait til we came with him the morning.

Well, is he who he says he is inspector?

I don't think he's a scientist,

- Shh. - He doesn't seem

- a very clever man. - Well, I'm checking

his story now, and all his dates seem to fit.

Looks like your brother was telling the truth all along

about his alibi.

And when can you get here inspector?

The morning.

We won't get over the crossing in this weather.

Look, Mr Argyle,

Dr Calgary thinks he's doing a good thing,

rushing to tell your family this.

But while he knows an unnatural amount about eels

and suchlike,

I don't think he knows anything about people.

How are they all taking the news?

I...

I thought you'd be pleased to know that

Jacko Argyle isn't a murderer?

We are.

It's...

Jump for joy.

You are an insensitive man Dr Korgorie.

[Leo] Kirsten.

No, what did he think he was doing?

When you looked through the window

didn't you see a happy family?

I did, and I thought that what I had to say

would be make you happier.

That our brother was executed

for a murder he didn't commit?

Why couldn't you have just left us all alone?

Thank you Dr Calgary?

Come on Hess.

Daddy [crying].

[Hester sobbing]

[mellow music]

Well.

Yeah,

what's the quote?

Nothing is ever...

I was useless at literature,

nothing is settled--

Nothing is ever settled, until it is settled right.

- Kipling. - Yes, quite certainly is.

The police have requested that you leave now.

Oh, in this weather.

They didn't mention the weather,

they just asked you to go.

Right.

It's true though, don't you think,

what Kipling said?

Do you think it's true?

Oh Miss Marple I think...

If you don't mind, I do think that we ought

to leave the family to themselves for a while.

Oh, of course.

Would you care to have supper in my room?

Oh, I'm sure Miss Marple would prefer her own company.

She's had a very long journey.

No, it would be nice to have company, thank you.

When did Rachel Argyle realise she couldn't have children?

Just after she was married.

She was an heiress, her father was rich as a king.

She used that money to buy her family.

And bought Fiker's point,

which was the original name of this estate.

She changed the name to Sunny Point,

and filled it like a fairground

with everything a child might desire.

And over the years she bought the children

from deprived backgrounds.

Mary's the eldest, isn't she?

She was from New York.

Slum tenement, parents in jail.

She's always been a particular girl,

everything proper and in it's place.

And her husband, the pilot...

He's a bag of badness, I tell you.

Rachel never liked him, and she was right.

Why is he in a wheelchair?

Polio, 18 months ago.

Then after Mary came the twins, Jacko and Bobby.

Bobby was Jacko's twin?

Oh yes, they came from an orphanage

about the same time I came from Denmark

to take up my appointment.

Then Hester was a catholic girl's shame.

And Micky and Tina during the war.

Micky from the East End,

Tina's mother a...

If you understand what I mean,

they both live in Redkey.

The children were Rachel's obsession,

the well she put all her money and attention down.

And her love?

No Miss Marple, Rachel meant well.

But her tragedy was that I don't think

she was capable of love, at least not towards her children.

[thunder rumbling]

[Tina] Shall I say what we're all thinking?

[Mary] Is that a good idea?

Why we're not looking each other in the eye.

Just eat your dinner Tina.

Because if Jacko didn't kill the bitch,

who did?

Don't you dare use language like that against mother.

I used it behind her back when she as alive Mary,

I'll use it when she's dead.

[bang on table]

Apologise.

It's what everyone's thinking daddy.

Tina!

I think that...

We should maybe talk about all this

when the shock has worn off, don't you?

Why not?

Let's all talk about the weather shall we Gwenda?

The price of tea?

How very English.

I'm sorry sir, but Tina is right.

If Jacko didn't murder Rachel,

then which one of your children did?

Well it was a burglary, surely?

Like Jacko always said.

I think we should leave any speculation to the police,

- don't you? - The police?

Yes, the police.

And it won't just be Jacko's movements that night

they'll be investigating,

it will be all of us.

[Micky] Well I'm gonna say it was a burglary.

Well, they'll accept that.

Last time we just told them it was Jacko,

and they accepted that straight away.

I don't think we're dealing with Sherlock Holmes here.

I will not have this talk.

[Bobby] Yes sir.

[Micky] Sorry dad.

- [Mary] Sorry daddy. - [Hester] Sorry daddy.

[Gwenda] If you'll excuse us.

[Miss Marple] Mrs Argyle leave any of her fortune

to her children?

I know what you're thinking,

you old ladies, you look so benign,

and yet your brain goes tic-toc, tic-toc.

Pouring over the latest murders in the newspapers

looking for motives.

Well, one has few pleasures left in life.

Rachel left all her fortune and trust for her children,

administered by Bobby.

They are all wealthy,

and can dip into the trust with his permission at any time.

But at that time,

Rachel had stopped being generous to Jacko.

He had wasted so much on illegal schemes.

We didn't know half of what he got up to.

We didn't know he was married.

[Miss Marple] Jacko was married?

Oh yes.

She turned up out of the blue

on the day of Rachel's funeral.

[cheerful music]

[lock clicking]

Yes?

Hello.

Yes?

I'm Maureen.

Hello Maureen.

Yeah, Jacko's wife.

No.

No, Jacko's not married.

Me mom said what with him committing murder and that,

that I should come up to the big house

and you'd see me right.

[Leo] What is it Kirsten?

Jacko's got a wife.

[Kirsten] Lies.

Now that Jacko's gonna be found guilty and all,

I thought I'd come for you to see me right, Mr Argyle.

Lies and wickedness.

Be quiet Kirsten.

It's a bit to say if he's gonna be found guilty,

don't you think?

Well, he did have the money sir.

And she was right Miss Marple,

he was found with some of the money on him.

The exact same serial numbers,

Jacko was responsible, I'm certain.

Always a wicked boy.

[dramatic music]

[mellow music]

Her ghost comes back to haunt me.

Once again Rachel takes away any chance of happiness.

What do you mean?

Well you saw how suspicious

everyone was of each other tonight.

Yes but...

If Jacko wasn't guilty,

then the police will soon discover who is.

Two years on?

They won't even find anything they can use.

And when the police reopen their investigation,

the whole world will be suspicious of this family.

[drink guggling]

[Miss Marple] Excuse me.

Bobby?

Have you seen Gwenda?

No one thought Jacko was innocent, you know?

[Miss Marple] No.

Unlike everyone else, he actually was my flesh and blood,

and even I didn't think that.

It was such a cut and dried case.

And he was always such a terrible liar,

and violent, if you went against him.

Do you think...

Dr Calgary...

Is mistaken?

The day before my brother was...

Was executed.

Hess and I visited him in prison.

It's time to say goodbye Hess.

[sobbing] No, don't say goodbye Jacko.

No, because I know you didn't do it Jacko.

Get off me!

I know he didn't do it.

[Prison Warden] Come on please, come on.

[Hester] Get off me.

[Bobby exhales]

I've made sure that wife of yours is provided for.

[Bobby breaths deeply]

I should've been more like you, shouldn't I Bob?

That's what they told me all my life.

How could twins be so different?

There's no...

No chance of a appeal, is there?

It's the money you had that hangs you Jack.

Maybe this is the best thing I've ever done.

It's gone round and round in my head for two years,

and now...

I think I know what he meant.

I think he knew...

Who the real killer was, and he was protecting them.

He was prepared to die for them.

This is ridiculous, we should've stayed up at the house.

You're better here.

Why, so you can murder me as well?

Let's get you out of these wet things.

You have ice in your heart Mary.

You are capable of murder,

I've always known that about you.

Don't be silly.

Especially...

The murder of her.

I loved my mother.

Well, when the police arrive tomorrow,

you'd better get your story straight my girl.

Just remember exactly what you told them the first time.

Actually...

Leo and I are thinking of postponing the wedding,

Miss Marple.

[Miss Marple] I'm sorry dear.

Two hours ago I was happy.

I was so happy that you'd arrived,

happy to be part of a family.

Happy to have found him.

And I won't have it taken away from me,

I won't.

Is there anything I can do Gwenda?

Yes, leave.

That's what you can do.

I think...

I just need to be on my own for a while.

We can talk at breakfast.

[mellow music]

[Arthur exclaims surprised]

I'm sorry.

It's you.

Yes.

Crossing, it seemed rather difficult in this weather.

The truth is, it's a dangerous crossing.

Indeed.

Indeed, yes.

Shouldn't you be inside and...

In the warm?

Do you want another truth doctor scientist?

Mother and Jacko dying was the best thing

that happened to this family.

They were the ones who brought unhappiness here.

I love my brother,

but without him we become a happy family...

Until you arrived.

We all know it wasn't a burglary,

and if Jacko didn't kill her,

which one of us must be guilty?

Hester?

Hess, are you in here?

Come on sweetheart, lets get you inside.

But it's not the guilty that matter,

is it doctor scientist?

It's the innocent.

The innocent who will suffer now.

If you can't get across, you might as well come in too.

[mellow music]

The first thing the police will do

is try to establish a motive.

Sorry, where am I sleeping?

In the study.

Well, the motive's easy.

Who gained most from mother's death?

Who now lives in her bedroom?

Gwenda?

[Hester] Exactly.

Who's going to share a bed with her husband?

[suspenseful music]

Are you heading back to London, Dr Calgary?

Well I think, yes I should, but...

I think also I should say and put right this upset

that I caused by blundering in last night.

That young girl, Hester, said yesterday that,

"It will be the innocent who would suffer now."

Now that the case has been reopened.

How perceptive of her.

Yes, that's what I thought, very perceptive.

But what on Earth did she mean?

80 years ago, a man called Charles Bravo

was poisoned in his London home.

There were three suspects, his wife, his doctor,

and his best friend.

Scotland Yard never found enough evidence

to bring any of them to trial, so all of them,

two who were innocent as well as the guilty,

were branded murderers by society and their lives ruined.

They all...

Died prematurely...

From either suicide or drink.

My goodness.

You're right not to leave Dr Calgary,

there are innocent lives here

which will be ruined if the murderer is not found.

And if the police can't find the evidence,

someone else will have to.

I last saw my wife just before seven o clock

on the night of the murder, this is in the document.

And what did you and she talk about?

The decision not to give Jacko anymore money.

We didn't talk for long but...

It was cordial.

And I will subsidise you as you write

your substandard books which nobody wants to publish.

You're the biggest parasite of the lot Leo.

The next time I saw her she was dead.

You were alone in your room for that hour and a half?

Yes.

Was the rest of your family in the house at the time?

Not Tina and Micky, they had flats over in Reading.

Jacko's wife?

At that point we didn't know Jacko was married Inspector.

[giggling]

[Micky] Come on you two.

[Bobby] The first edition's arrived father.

Ah thank you.

Well open it.

[Leo] Later, all right, thank you.

No, open it now.

Go on.

Mr and Mrs Durant, may I see you please?

It should've been an exciting moment for her.

It still is, isn't it pops?

You open it.

What did they ask you in there,

anything about Tina?

Look at this.

Ah.

Well.

Mr and Mrs Durant,

it appears from your statement of two years ago,

that you were both in the drawing room,

between the time of the argument

and the body being discovered.

Yes, it was our habit to spend the evenings here,

rather than down at the lodge.

Your wife will be down at the lodge Mr Durant,

maybe you should go to her.

And, during that time you didn't see

or hear anyone go into Mrs Argyle's study.

No.

No.

I knew Jacko never killed her.

He was a hot head, he was in fights,

everyone knew that about him.

But it...

Takes a different kind of character

to pick up a weapon and murder someone, doesn't it Hester?

A coldness.

Yes.

A coldness.

Were you in the house when your mother died?

Yes.

You spoke to Jacko after the argument, didn't you?

I calmed him down.

I'm a dead man, Hess.

Let's go for a walk baby.

[Miss Marple] Were you here Tina?

I was at work,

in the library in Redkeys.

Micky has cold blood in him.

Hester.

No, I love him, I do Tina.

But, he has the coldness.

Micky works in the motor trade in Redkey.

At the time of the murder he was collecting a car

from a dealer in Bristol.

He's told the police this.

Yes, but he hated her more than anyone Miss Marple.

Well he could hardly speak to her without cursing.

You left Sunny Point before seven o clock that evening,

and you went straight home?

Yes.

I took the post and...

Posted it.

And then...

Yes.

Miss Vaughn, had your friendship

with Mr Argyle begun before his wife's death.

No.

So your relationship with his wife was good?

Yes [clears throat].

She didn't know you harboured feelings for her husband?

Well, I didn't...

At that time, I didn't have feelings, as you put it,

for Leo.

We've fallen in love since his wife's death.

In many ways I've helped him through it.

[Leo] Let the new maid do that Kirsten.

I've let it go for a couple of days Mr Argyle.

Best keep all this police business within the family.

Is Gwenda still in with them?

Oh yes, she'll still be in there,

lying I imagine.

Lying about what?

About what friends she and Mrs Argyle were,

about how you and her

only fell in love after your wife died.

Well it's the truth.

No, it is not sir.

And I've been think Mr Argyle,

I've been thinking about motives.

And Rachel knew that girl was in love with you,

Rachel had confronted her with it before she died,

said she was a cuckoo in the nest.

What's that Ms Lindsey.

I've no doubt she will deny this Inspector.

She will try and show up the lies she has told you in there.

But, I heard bad words in this house

between and her and Rachel Argyle,

one week before she was murdered.

Listen to me you little slut.

I see the way you look at him.

We all know about women like you,

you keep him at his work, away from me, so you can--

[Gwenda] He doesn't love you.

[loud slap]

Leave my husband alone,

or I will dismiss you from this house.

What's a sad little woman like you know about love?

I have to tell this Gwenda,

can you deny it?

You want a motive Inspector?

Then I think this woman heard Jacko shout,

"I will kill you, you are dead."

And she knows that if she kills Rachel that night,

Jacko will get the blame,

and she will get the man and the house she wants.

Can you deny this Gwenda Vaughn,

the motive, the scheme, the coldness?

Leo.

Thank God you are not yet married to her Mr Argyle,

thank God she will not get away with it.

[dramatic music]

Leo.

Leo.

I didn't do it.

Leo.

You believe me, don't you?

It's that hoop over there now Hess.

That's right.

Come on.

Don't you know how to play by now?

[Hester] Be quiet Mary.

Are you admiring my brother's ability

to keep things going Calgary?

Yes I was rather.

[clears throat] He's always organising.

He's organised the whole of tomorrow's wedding,

if it's to take place.

He's paid for the lot.

Yes, he made his money in the...

City, if I'm not mistaken.

Yes, the only one mother could be proud of.

Money was important to mother.

She bought me for £100,

doctor, did you know that?

I was evacuated here during the war,

and afterwards she bought me from my natural mother

for £100.

From the day I came here,

all I wanted to do was to go home.

[Dr Calgary] Yes.

[upbeat music]

Inspector.

We haven't been introduced but I'm Jane Marple,

an old friend of Gwenda Vaughn's, down for the wedding.

And, I wish to vouch for her character.

Yes, of course, she's kind to cats and children,

unlike her mother, who I presume was your best friend.

She would never have done anything like this.

I have no idea who her mother was.

I'm beginning to understand what Rachel Argyle

was like as a mother, and I think she,

not Gwenda, is the key to solving this crime, don't you?

Can we stay still for a moment,

I'm too old to trot.

Now, with most crimes, it's the character of the killer

which is most fascinating.

But in this case it's the character of the victim

which reveals more, don't you agree?

Maybe, go on.

This is no crime of passion.

It's one of immaturity, of...

Arrested development,

most common to teenage years.

And the Argyle's lived under the iron control

of their mother even into adulthood.

No wonder Jacko kept his wife a secret,

to get married would be too much like growing up.

Gwenda Vaughn remains my main suspect.

No, your main suspect is still Jacko,

I'm sure that's what you mean Inspector.

He was in possession of money from that desk.

Have you asked yourself how he got it?

Inspector.

Miss Marple.

Is there any chance of a lift to the Swan Hotel.

Yes, of course Doctor.

Have you asked yourself?

I have.

His twin brother thinks Jacko

went to his execution protecting someone.

Now he hardly knew Gwenda Vaughn,

why would he die to protect her?

I'll let you get on.

Thank you.

Goodbye.

Goodbye Dr Calgary.

Goodbye.

Who was that?

[drawer clambering]

[hurried rustling]

[dramatic music]

[items shuffling]

[Miss Marple] Gwenda?

Gwenda?

[Gwenda] Yes, come in,

Miss Marple.

You haven't been down to supper dear.

Leo's called off the wedding.

Yes, they're all talking about it downstairs.

Oh yes I bet they are,

I bet they're all having a sweep stake

on when the police are going to come and arrest me.

The police won't arrest you without any evidence.

No, but they suspect me, don't they?

And I haven't got an alibi for that evening Miss Marple.

Even Leo suspects for me.

But the thing is, no,

you see I was thinking

that Rachel's rooms haven't been touched since she died.

And I just thought that, maybe,

maybe there's something in here that's been overlooked,

that might point to the killer.

Like her diary or correspondents?

Yes, but I can't find anything.

No, but something like that's more likely

to be found in her study, isn't it?

Yes.

Yes.

Will you help me Miss Marple?

[clock chiming]

The most obvious person Jacko would be protecting

would be his wife.

What's she like?

Maureen?

Well, I only saw her once.

Bobby sorted her out financially,

and after that no one from the family

ever heard from her again.

Well, it's about time she heard from us.

Is there a safe?

[suspenseful music]

Here we are, that's it.

[Gwenda] Where did you learn to do that?

My nephew Raymond has one,

he's always losing the key.

[chuckling]

Oh there.

[footsteps approaching]

[Gwenda breathes heavily]

[suspenseful music]

[dramatic music]

[Gwenda] Who was it?

[Miss Marple] Bobby.

Oh.

Yes, of course him.

He's just catching the early morning train to London.

[safe clambering]

It's been cleared out.

[torch clicks]

What would Rachel be doing with a private detective?

That's what you must find out tomorrow,

at the Swan Hotel.

There's someone there who will be willing to help you.

[upbeat flute music]

Yes, I was in Mrs Argyle employ,

but I'm afraid I'm not at liberty

to discuss the circumstances.

Confidentiality is my middle name, you see?

Well, yes I understand that Mr fjf,

but, you see,

it's possible that you might be able to help us with--

I'm going to stop you there young lady,

and terminate this interview forthwith.

Because discretion is my middle name.

I thought you said it was confidentiality.

Good day.

Well, wait, listen, Mr...

Mr...

Whatever your middle name is.

If you don't sit down and answer our questions,

before the end of the day you will be having

the same questions put to you by the police.

- The police? - Yes the police.

I don't like the police.

Well, then just...

Park yourself there and, yes,

thank you.

The police?

Yes.

Now most people hire a private detective Mr Croker

because they're going through a divorce.

So, did Rachel Argyle ask you to investigate her husband?

No,

I was employed to investigate another member of her family.

- Who? - Her son in law,

Philip Durant.

Why?

Well, before his unfortunate illness Mr Durant was,

what I call, a leg-over merchant.

A right little man about town.

Rachel Argyle suspected he had just married her daughter

for her money, and she was right.

That's why she kept a tight rein

on her daughter's inheritance.

Anyway...

She wanted evidence from me

that would force the marriage to end.

I provided a large file,

containing the names of women,

the dates of his assignations in hotels, photographs,

you know the full.

And I delivered it to her a few days before she died.

[wheelchair scraping on gravel]

Hester.

Hess?

[grunts]

[Mary] When we first married,

Philip bought a maisonette in Redkey.

[Miss Marple] Was he working?

No, he'd come out of the RAF,

and was between benches.

Never very lucky.

Anyway, mother took one look at our little place

and insisted that we came here to take the lodge.

You didn't want to come?

Philip was something that was mine, Miss Marple,

not hers.

But it turned out,

he didn't have as much money as he said he had,

and was eager to come and escape the mortgage.

Couldn't you take money out of your trust?

Mother would never have given permission,

and now Bobby has that power and he's also reluctant.

It's been nearly two years since that awful night,

Miss Marple, and yet we still haven't been able to move on.

Must have been shocking for you

to have discovered your mother's body that way.

Well, it was Kirsten who actually discovered her,

and then Philip who phoned the police.

Fortunately, I wasn't there at the time.

It has to be Philip Durant, he's the killer.

Rachel had confronted him with the...

- Evidence. - Evidence, thank you, yes.

From confidentiality Croker.

And then Philip overhead Jacko threaten to kill her,

when the house was quiet took his chance

to bang her on the head.

We should go back to Sunny Point now,

and make a citizen's arrest, bang the fellow up.

Why are we going to see a film?

Miss Marple said we had to find Maureen.

Who's Maureen?

Jacko's wife.

Right, yes, of course.

Jacko did it Miss Vaughn, no doubt,

he was found with the evidence.

The money from the desk.

That's right.

And he had a nasty side, he...

I was pleased to be rid of him, if you know what I mean.

Yes.

Mom said he was just a charmer,

women had a thing for him.

Especially older women, he could play them like a piano.

How do you mean?

Well, he'd flatter them sir,

get them to fall in love with him,

and then he'd sting them for money he needed

for some scam or other.

He worked for this car salesman,

and got into trouble when a lot of money went missing.

The salesman's wife was so besotted with him,

that she ended up raiding her own savings,

so that he could give the money back to the husband.

Could he always get money...

Out of his mother.

No.

No, he had to be desperate to go to her.

But he was desperate that night Miss Vaughn,

he was very scared.

The bookie was really a gangster,

and he was going to kill him.

I think Jacko owed much more money than he was letting on.

He was innocent, and no one believed him.

I believe Gwenda is innocent too Leo,

do you?

No.

You think that because you think you know her character.

Well, I thought I knew Jacko's character and I was wrong.

And it's character I've studied my whole life.

How history is not...

An inevitable march of time,

but is shaped by the actions of particular characters,

at particular times.

How a King, or politicians, have based motive of greed, say,

or jealousy, or ambition.

Though ugly at the time, is all about good things,

when seen in the context of history.

You take the Medichi, for example,

a despicable family, capable of great cruelty.

Yet, their reign in Florence produced

economical prosperity and art, that has never been equaled.

Good things can come out of bad deeds.

Exactly, and that's...

That's what I thought...

Had happened when...

Jacko killed Rachel.

[melancholy music]

How's it going there Bob?.

Any decisions on releasing Mary's capitol yet?

Not now Philip.

We were promised a decision 18 months ago.

Look,

I don't need this every time I come back from London.

It's not your money.

I don't care if he's busy,

I want to see Inspector Huish now, please.

I've got vital information concerning

the Sunny Point murder, and I must tell him

before he hangs another innocent man.

Mrs Price, would you come this way please.

Well, yes, but it's Cyril you want to talk to Inspector.

Cyril?

Cyril's come here to make a confession,

haven't you Cyril.

Yes.

Go on.

Cyril Price, did you bludgeon Mrs Argyle to death?

No, he's been scrumping again.

And I clipped him round the ear,

I told him what for Inspector.

But he was out scrumping by the crossing to Sunny Point,

on the night of the murder two years ago.

We would have come forward before,

but we thought you found the killer.

What did you see Cyril?

I saw...

A dragon.

A what?

They all call it that because of the noise it makes,

but he was that motorbike, Tina Argyle's bike.

And he got back about 8:15,

so it must have been about eight when he saw it.

So, what do you think about that then?

She hasn't told you she was there at the time of the murder,

has she?

I told my husband the Inspector wouldn't know this,

I said that to him, didn't I Cyril?

[Hester] Why do we always have to play games Bobby?

Well, we can't just wimp around the house, can we?

You game Mick?

Sure.

Come on, you can be on my team.

[Bobby] Come on.

Is there anyway that Philip and Jacko

could've been in league?

I can't see it.

But if they both wanted Rachel out of the way

to get access to their fund,

they must have plotted this all along.

Something's happening.

Tina, the Inspector would like a world.

Miss Argyle, will you come back

to the station with us please?

Why?

[Inspector] For questioning.

What do you mean?

She's not going anywhere.

Miss Argyle if you don't come,

I'll be forced to arrest you on suspicion

of involvement in your mother's death.

What are you talking about?

It's all right.

She's done nothing wrong,

nothing wrong!

- It's all right. - Dad.

She was at work in her library at the time of the murder,

wasn't she Mick?

I'm sure the police have their reasons.

What reasons?

What do they know dad?

They didn't tell me anything.

Well why didn't you ask?

Micky.

All of you.

The police are going to do their job,

and there's nothing we can do.

All of us are under suspicion,

but we must stick together and not let this drive us apart.

I know that none of you could have committed this murder,

and I'm proud of all of you, and we will get through this.

I should say something here,

and it's what we're all thinking.

Mr Argyle, I know you are thinking it.

Which is, why they have arrested Tina and not arrested her.

[Mary] Absolutely.

Am I not right?

I'm not thinking that, no.

No, I am right.

And you have a duty now Gwenda Vaughn to go and confess.

This family will not stand by

while another child swings on the gallows for your crime.

Did you do it Gwenda?

No.

No.

Leo.

Leo, why don't you--

I...

We will not have a murderer under this roof.

I am not a murderer, and I'll be able to prove it.

I know things about this family, and I swear that before--

What things?

What do you know?

I know that Rachel had given Philip

an ultimatum to leave Mary.

What?

Yes, because of your philandering.

She had a private detective onto you.

Oh, this is preposterous.

You see.

You see, this family's full of secrets.

But I know things, that will incriminate the killer,

I really do.

I'm Rachel's rooms remember.

I found things.

Miss Argyle, you've always maintained

that you were at work in Redkey

at the time your mother was murdered.

Why have you been lying to us?

Miss Argyle, why did you go to Sunny Point that night?

Mother had arranged for me to take a post

as assistant librarian

at St Andrew's University in Scotland.

I went to tell her I didn't want the job.

So you saw your mother that night?

I drove to Sunny Point, but didn't cross.

Why not?

Why were you really there Tina?

To see her about the job.

Then why didn't you?

Tina Argyle I'm holding you on suspicion

of being involved in the murder of Rachel Argyle.

[melancholy music]

[door creaks]

We'd have been on our honeymoon by now.

You really can't throw around

accusations like that Gwenda.

People are accusing me Leo,

they're accusing me, I didn't do it Leo, I didn't.

Look me in the face and tell me that you think I did it.

Leo, look at me.

Gwenda, I think it's best

if you move out of Sunny Point tomorrow.

I think it's best for everyone

that I just have my family here.

Yes.

Leo, I am still the same person that I was two days ago,

I'm still the same woman

that you wanted to be part of this family,

that you wanted to marry.

I know, but I think it's best that you

leave in the morning.

I'm sorry.

[Gwenda whimpering]

Night Micky.

Are you going down to the police station?

They said to go in the morning.

[mellow music]

[suspenseful music]

[clock chiming]

[pills rattling in jar]

[mellow music]

[papers rustling]

[mellow music]

[papers rustling]

[mellow music]

[Gwenda gasps]

[squelching noise]

[thudding]

[dramatic music]

[door knocking]

[Kirsten] Miss Marple?

Yes.

Miss Marple, I don't know how to say this.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for things I said about her.

Gwenda?

She's been killed in the night [sobs].

You must be careful Miss Marple,

if Gwenda found something out

then maybe that's why she was killed.

And if she told you...

No.

She didn't,

nothing.

You must be careful Miss Marple.

[mellow music]

I found her just before seven this morning.

I asked her to leave the house today, and I'd...

Taken her a cup of tea to wake her up.

I wanted her gone before the children woke up.

We need to inform Miss Vaughn's family of her death,

- do you have her--. - She had no family.

This is where she thought she'd found a family.

[Hester] I want my daddy!

Hester.

I want my daddy!

[Hester sobbing]

It's all right.

I can't stand it any more daddy, I can't stand it.

Now come on now, it's going to be fine.

It's not going to be fine!

All right.

She had her tablet?

- No sir. - Okay.

- Stay with me. - Yes,

I'll stay with you, come on.

[Hester sobbing]

What weapon do you think was used?

If I may ask.

Entry wound is very small,

a penknife, maybe.

[drawers scraping]

[dramatic music]

Daddy?

Daddy, what's happening?

It's going to be fine,

you take care of Hester, make sure she's all right.

No, Miss Marple, if I hadn't have come here,

none of this would've happened and

that poor girl would still be alive.

I blame myself, I do, I blame myself.

Dr Calgary.

I know it wasn't my fault,

but really I blame myself.

One can't help feeling...

Take me back to the Arctic, that's where I belong.

Lemmings don't go around murdering each other.

Pull yourself together Dr Calgary.

There is some things I need you to do.

How are you?

Go away Philip.

I'm just being nice.

You're never nice.

I think we may have a problem,

I think they might be onto us.

[dramatic music]

Well you can let Tina go now that

you've arrested the old man, can't you?

Why can't you just let her go.

[Police Officer] Hey, easy.

Hey lad.

[chairs crashing]

Come on.

[Inspector Huish] Are these yours?

I don't know how they got into my room,

in that state.

But they're yours?

Yes.

Mr Argyle, if you say you didn't put these in your study,

you're implying that a member of your family

is trying to frame you for murder.

When did you last see Gwenda Vaughn alive?

[clears throat] In my study,

last night about 11 o clock.

[Inspector Huish] And when did your relationship

with her begin?

About...

Four months after my wife died.

Gwenda was very...

Kind.

She was...

Loving in a way...

In a way that no one ever had been loving.

Oh dear.

Oh Gwenda.

Have you read Leo's book?

He was talking to me about it,

and this is what it's all about, isn't it?

Did he talk to you Miss Marple?

Good things come from bad deeds.

[Bobby] Kirsten.

No it has to be said.

He was a shadow of a man with Rachel,

and when she died, he became alive again, didn't he Mary.

Yes.

And he loved Jacko like we did Bob.

And he'd already started his affair with Gwenda.

I am the eyes of this house,

I see what I'm not supposed to see.

[seagulls squawking]

Mrs Lindsey?

Mrs Lindsey?

Where's your car love?

Can't go filling you up with petrol [laughs].

My car?

It was a joke.

Right.

Yes, I understand.

Mrs Lindsey, I wondered

if I could have a rather delicate word with you?

[dramatic music]

[silver clanging]

Jacko, what a boy.

He was the kind of bloke who could get under your skin,

you know?

Naughty, dangerous, you knew you shouldn't but...

[sighs] He was like a drug,

he can make you feel 22 again.

You ever had a girl like that Professor?

There was a young lady at church once,

but we never really...

Spoke.

What was her name?

I believe...

That you gave Jacko Argyle some money.

I knew what he was up to.

He pinched a wad off my husband and needed to pay him back.

And you knew about this and yet you went along with it.

I didn't want him to go away, ever.

Even though you knew you weren't the only one,

even though you knew that he was gonna end badly.

I went up to the prison once where they were holding him.

He wouldn't see me.

Yet I cried like a child the day they hanged him.

Even now.

[suspenseful music]

[Miss Marple gasps]

Miss Marple, can we talk?

I know who killed Gwenda, I know who killed mother,

but I have no evidence.

I don't think the police will believe me.

Will you believe me?

What do you know?

Miss Marple, who's the weakest in this family?

Who have they always tried to protect,

especially from mother?

And who followed Jacko out the night of the murder?

Jacko.

Jacko wait.

Mother had been bullying Hester for years,

and Hester adored Jacko,

would've killed for him, I'm sure.

You know what they say

about timid people when pushed to violence,

and now she's killed Gwenda.

Because Gwenda said she'd discovered the truth.

Mary.

Why did you tell the police you were with Philip

when your mother was murdered?

And yet, yesterday

you told me

you left the big house much earlier that evening.

Hester's a very attractive girl, isn't she Mary?

[Mary sighs]

Would you want the world to know

that your husband was sleeping with your sister?

I lied to the police Miss Marple,

because I have a sense of shame.

But it doesn't change the fact that Hester did this,

and she's now trying to frame my father for murder.

[Receptionist] Good afternoon sir.

May I have my key please.

Certainly.

[keys jingly]

Thank you, are there any messages for me?

[Receptionist] Yes sir.

Oh sir, you forgot your key.

[dramatic music]

Going to London, Bobby, on a Sunday?

Don't you think your father might need you today?

You're not my keeper Philip.

Listen,

chump.

According to my calculations,

Mary's share of the trust should be a quarter of a million,

now I know we have asked for 20 grand to buy a house.

But I think we should have all of it now,

and we should stop being treated like children.

You know the conditions of the trust Philip,

you are entitled to half--

Yeah, but when Bob?

[silver clanging]

Bobby.

Bobby!

[dramatic music]

Miss Argyle?

Miss Argyle?

Miss Argyle.

Why don't we...

Go back to the house.

I know what I wanted to ask you,

doctor scientist.

You know about animals and environments, don't you?

If you take an animal out of its environment,

then it suffers, doesn't it?

It dies inside.

Try and reinvent it, but...

Mr Argyle.

[Hester] But they die inside.

Mr Argyle, can you help us?

[Hester] Even animals need love, doctor scientist.

Just...

Step away from the water.

I'll be more than willing...

To give you a seminar on the subject back at the house.

Got a slideshow.

Money is the cause of this family's misery.

All of us were from poor backgrounds.

Yes.

That's lovely.

Just step away.

Money has not made us happy.

It never does.

Animals don't have money, do they?

Not a penny.

Why is that?

Why have human beings turned unhappiness

into coins that you can actually touch.

[water splashing]

Where's Bobby?

Bobby!

[Arthur] No.

[Hester] Bobby!

[Arthur] Miss Argyle.

Bobby!

No.

Bobby!

[dramatic music]

[mellow music]

[room chattering]

I don't think you're going to find a suicide note,

Inspector, that is what you're looking for, isn't it?

A confession?

Why won't I find one?

Because I don't think Bobby

really intended to kill himself.

At least...

Not until he was halfway over the crossing.

What do you know Miss Marple?

I think it's something the whole family should hear.

It seems, that despite their differences,

the twins, Bobby and Jacko,

were more alike than anybody realised.

It always struck me as odd...

That Bobby was as parsimonious with the trust

as Rachel had been,

that since she died he had barely parted with a penny.

But I think, Bobby had been living under great stress.

[suspenseful music]

I asked Dr Calgary to get in touch

with his stock brokers, Marshal's.

Yes.

One of the partners of Marshal's was arrested this morning,

for fraud and embezzlement.

And, well it seems, that he and Bobby

have their fingers in the honey pot, so to speak.

Bobby used Rachel's trust for financial scams

on a much larger scale than Jacko ever got involved in.

The authorities had been closing in on his corruption

for the last two years.

Which means that Rachel, as a trustee,

would've had knowledge of Bobby's criminal activities

shortly before she died.

Sort it out yourself Bobby, sometimes I feel

I should never have bothered with you and your brother.

But Bobby's always been as generous as he could with us.

Yes.

He was paying for this whole wedding.

With money he didn't have.

Yes, it seems that for the last two years,

he'd been trying to keep one step ahead of financial ruin.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

But I think the love he put into the wedding

was a last attempt to keep the good times and celebrate.

You're telling me that Bobby murdered Rachel

when she found out about the fraud?

Bobby's about the only member of the family

you never arrested Inspector Huish.

That's enough of that.

No doubt you'd have got round to him.

Bobby was no more a killer than his brother was.

He'd been genuinely troubled by Jacko's last words.

Maybe this is the best thing...

I've ever done.

And why offer up information like that,

if you were intent on Jacko being blamed for the murder.

Why not, for example,

try and discredit Dr Calgary's evidence.

And besides, he wasn't the only person

who benefited from Rachel's death that night.

Was he Mr Durant?

Whose secrets were kept safe.

Tina, why did your mother arrange for you

to have a job at a university library

in the north of Scotland?

She doesn't know, okay?

That's just what mom did, she was a very controlling woman.

Let her answer, please.

And, when you came here that night

to tell her you weren't going to take the position,

who did you see coming over the crossing

just after the time of the murder?

Whose boat was being used Tina?

Micky's.

No, I was at work.

I was collecting from Bristol,

you checked that with my employer, didn't you Inspector?

And I didn't stay because If Micky was in a temper,

as he usually was after visiting mother,

he'd be in no mood to talk to me.

Why did you think Micky had come to see your mother?

He was angry with her.

He didn't want her to keep controlling my life.

Why not?

[laughter]

She'd realised you and Micky were in a relationship,

hadn't she?

Why you both lived away in Redkey,

and she was determined to drive a wedge between you.

We're only brother and sister by law.

She had no right to control us.

Micky.

You suspect Micky killed your mother, don't you Tina?

You're trying to protect him.

Miss Marple, his alibi does check out with his employers.

You saw Micky's boat and thought it was him,

but it couldn't have been Micky rowing, Tina.

You...

Followed Jacko out that night, didn't you Hester?

What did you talk about?

[Hester] Nothing.

I'm a dead man Hess.

Calm down, come on, lets go for a walk baby.

If I don't get the cash, they really are going to kill me.

I'm sure it's not that bad Jacko.

What do you know?

I had never seen Jacko frightened,

and I couldn't calm him.

How far did you walk with him?

Just to the corner of the house,

then I came back.

Did you see anyone else?

Are you sure?

Because I don't think you were the only one

who followed Jacko out after the fight.

Who then?

Who has been shifting the blame from one person to another

since Dr Calgary's arrival.

Jacko was responsible, I'm certain.

Thank God you have not yet married her Mr Argyle.

Thank God she will not get away with it.

He was a shadow of a man with Rachel,

when she died, he became alive again.

Who considers herself to be

the real mother of these children?

The one who gave them the unconditional love

they were so badly short of.

For what reason would I follow Jacko out Miss Marple?

Because you loved him.

Because you were the latest

in a long line of middle-aged women Jacko would manipulate.

Jacko could bleed dry of savings,

Jacko could make feel...

Special.

You said, "Jacko killed Rachel."

And I think you still believe that.

You believe that Jacko was responsible.

Make it look like a burglary,

and then bring me the money.

Yes.

And, hit her hard.

Rachel should never get up.

I'll get a cast iron alibi for eight o clock,

because everyone will suspect it's me.

Eight o clock.

Yes my darling.

[dramatic music]

- [golf club landing] - [Rachel grunts]

[Kirsten grunting]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

Jacko did know who the real killer was.

But he also knew that if he left prison,

he was going to get killed anyway.

And he did the one good thing in his life,

by letting you go free.

The real mother that these children had.

You tell a good story Miss Marple.

But what proof is there?

No one saw anything, no one heard anything.

Not even Inspector Huish can arrest me on hearsay.

These children,

who you've loved and protected your whole life,

will never be free of suspicion

if you don't confess Kirsten.

Their ordeal by innocence has already cost of them his life,

and another has been pushed to the edge.

Let alone my friend, whose life you thought disposable,

was not part of this family,

who was never part of any family,

and who you denied happiness to.

[squelching]

Set your children free,

Kirsten.

It's the only way you can protect them now.

Kirsten Lindstrom,

did you murder Rachel Argyle and Gwenda Vaughn.

[melancholy music]

[melancholy music]

If she loved Jacko so much...

Why did she let him die?

She didn't know about him being married.

She thought she was the only one.

I think her love curdled to hate,

the moment his wife knocked on the door.

Are you going to London?

Yes.

Then I'm travelling again, to the Galapagos,

there's a new expedition.

Do you ever go home Dr Calgary?

Rarely.

Where's home for you Miss Marple?

Home.

[melancholy music]

Home is St Mary Mead.

What I'm looking forward to about the Galapagos,

is seeing species of [mutters].

Don't you think it would be a remarkable thing Miss Marple,

to stumble like Darwin across [murmurs].

[Miss Marple] Yes.

[upbeat music]

[twinkling]