#belle #whitehotthemysterioumurderofthelmatodd #poirottheincredibletheft Poirot wagers Chief Inspector Japp that he can solve the mystery of a missing banker without leaving his flat. Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran.
02:55They must refer back to Wall Street, so it'll be a few days yet.
02:58Oh, by the way, Lowen rang.
03:02He said he would be catching the earlier train, after all.
03:04Oh.
03:18I don't know why you agreed to see him anyway.
03:22You keep saying how much you detest the man.
03:24It wasn't quite that easy.
03:26He's a shark, and he's very slippery.
03:30He's angling for a directorship at the bank.
03:33Has been for months now.
03:35But you'd sooner die.
03:37Gerald Lowen, a seat on your own bank.
03:41Oh, he wants to make life as uncomfortable for me as he can,
03:43and that would give him just the power base to set about it.
03:46Unfortunately, he does hold a bit of a trump card this time.
03:50Five percent stake in Cape Gold, which he knows we're desperate to get hold of,
03:54puts him in a rather strong bargaining position, I'm afraid.
03:56All right?
03:57Yes.
03:58I'm fine.
03:59Well, maybe he's on the 4.45.
04:01He'll be here pretty shortly.
04:02I really want to go through one or two of these papers before he gets here.
04:19I'm sorry about all this.
04:21I'm sorry.
04:28Yeah.
04:29Oh, my God.
04:59Ah, look, I just want to catch the last post.
05:16I think I'll take a wander into the village.
05:18Lone will just be getting in.
05:18I can meet him off the train.
05:20Right.
05:20Anyway, spot of fresh air will do me good.
05:26Matthew.
05:29Matthew.
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06:50The girl was no longer inside the chrysalis when it vanished.
07:16There was a secret.
07:18It baffled even Poirot for a full ten seconds.
07:20The key, of course, lies in the costume of the girl.
07:24Inside, there is shown a network of very fine steel wires.
07:30Well, the human beings are made of flesh and blood, no?
07:32To make them vanish into the air.
07:35Said impossible.
07:36You think so?
07:38I take it you haven't heard, then, about the strange business of Mr. Matthew Davenheim.
07:45And we are talking about Mr. Davenheim of Davenheim and Semron.
07:49Ah, the big banking firm.
07:50Of which Matthew Davenheim was a senior partner.
07:53And a very wealthy man, too, if his house is anything to go by.
07:57Incidentally, my dear Chief Inspector,
07:59you will have a little something to warm you before you leave.
08:02Well, seeing as I'm not on duty.
08:06Yes, it's a rare old puzzle, all told.
08:09Friday afternoon, he told his wife he was off to the village to post some letters.
08:13Walks out the front gate.
08:15Hasn't been seen or heard of since.
08:16Uh-huh.
08:22And at what time, precisely, did Mr. Davenheim leave?
08:24We gather around 4.40.
08:28He was expecting a business colleague to arrive by train that afternoon
08:32to talk over some financial deal or other.
08:35Mr. Gerald Lowen.
08:37How do you do?
08:50Oh, Mr. Lowen.
08:52You drove here, then.
08:53I didn't hear the car.
08:55No, I came by train.
08:56But we were a little early,
08:58so I thought I'd walk up from the station.
09:01Oh, but my husband was walking down to meet you.
09:03How maddening.
09:04You must have passed each other in the lane.
09:06I don't think so.
09:09Oh, but you must have.
09:10He left here not very long.
09:12Mr. Davenheim, I couldn't possibly have passed your husband.
09:15The fact is, I didn't pass anybody.
09:18There wasn't another soul in the lane all the way.
09:24Please make yourself comfortable, I'm here.
09:28I'm sure he won't be very long.
09:30Good.
09:31Mrs. Davenheim showed Lowen into her husband's study,
09:34and there he waited.
09:37And waited.
09:40And waited.
09:43Well, over an hour goes by.
09:46Still, Davenheim doesn't return.
09:48Gerald Lowen, his patience exhausted,
09:57takes his leave.
10:00This is the way your husband treats
10:01important business clients, is it?
10:03But I'm quite at a loss.
10:06I'm so sorry.
10:07Yes.
10:08I'm very sorry too, Mrs. Davenheim.
10:10Very sorry indeed.
10:18Inquiries are made throughout the village.
10:25Nothing.
10:26They've searched everywhere.
10:28They've found nothing.
10:29Well, I don't know who else to tell you.
10:30To all intents and purposes,
10:32Matthew Davenheim has vanished off the face of the earth.
10:34I'll call you back.
10:35Please just come over.
10:37Good evening, Mum.
10:38It seems everyone saw Lowen.
10:41Nobody saw Davenheim.
10:44Lowen.
10:45Why does that name ring a bell?
10:47Oh, certainly, Mum.
10:50It is most obscure, my dear chief inspector.
10:54Which gives me the great hopes of solving it.
10:58I'm afraid I can't see it myself.
11:01Ah, but I do not see, mon ami.
11:03I shut my eyes and I think.
11:06One must always seek the truth from within.
11:09If you've told me that once,
11:11you've told me a thousand times.
11:17All right, then, Poirot.
11:21Here's a challenge for you.
11:24A fiver of my money that says you can't solve this little mystery
11:28without leaving the house.
11:30We'll give you seven days.
11:41Of course, if it's beyond even your magical powers.
11:43Eh bien, seven days, huh?
11:50Provided the facts are placed before me
11:53and that you will allow Hastings here
11:54to furnish me with such information as I require,
11:57the solution becomes inevitable.
12:00I accept.
12:00Good night, Poirot.
12:06Thanks for the drink.
12:08Like robbing a baby.
12:22Now, that's a way to walk to the village, sir.
12:24About five minutes on foot.
12:25During which time,
12:29he must have passed Lerwyn coming from the station.
12:33Can I just ask, what's down there?
12:37That takes you right into Brooklyn.
12:39It's a big motor racing venue.
12:41A little way down there is a boat, mate.
12:43Now, we've checked with the keeper.
12:45He swears Davenheim never passed his own.
12:48Have a place there, Chief Inspector.
12:52I beg your pardon, sir?
12:54What, er, colour were they, if you can remember?
12:57Oh, Mr. Lowen's trailer, sir.
13:00Well, I know it's a rather odd question,
13:02but, er, a rather odd person would like to know.
13:04Hmm.
13:06Kind of a light colour, I suppose you'd say they were.
13:09Light grey.
13:11Very smartly turned out, it was.
13:14Apart from that stupid moustache.
13:18It goes back a long way.
13:21It's a rivalry between them.
13:30Lowen lost out to my husband
13:32in a big deal over some shipping company shares.
13:36Poor man was nearly wiped out.
13:38It was a few years ago now,
13:40but he's never stopped hounding Matthew ever since.
13:43I believe he came here to barter some South African stock or something
13:49in exchange for a position on the bank.
13:55Did a lot of business in South Africa, did he, your husband?
13:59He was over in Johannesburg all last winter.
14:02Must have been three months.
14:04He brought me back the most wonderful diamond earrings.
14:12He always brought me back jewellery of one kind or another
14:14whenever he went away.
14:16Do you believe in a sixth sense, Chief Inspector?
14:31I had it the day my mother died.
14:35I had it again on Friday.
14:38All day, the certain knowledge
14:40that something like this was going to happen.
14:41And now it has, hasn't it?
14:48I wonder if I might have a word now with your maid.
14:53I think I might have a word now with your mistress.
15:02Chief Inspector, you have nice news.
15:11I'm surprised to see you still here, Mr. Poirot.
15:20I thought you'd be out on the Davenheim case.
15:24Ah, well, Miss Lemon.
15:26The Chief Inspector, Jappe,
15:28has bet me five pounds
15:29that I cannot solve this mystery
15:31without leaving my apartment.
15:34And I accept his bet.
15:36Oh, are you sure that was wise?
15:39Perhaps not, Miss Lemon.
15:40On reflection,
15:43ten pounds
15:44would be a much rounder sum.
15:53I just told all I know
15:55to that police inspector.
15:56I ain't got time to tell that all again.
15:58No, quite.
15:59I can see you're a very busy man, Mr. Merritt.
16:02Boatman's work's never done.
16:04Yes.
16:05On Friday afternoon, Mr. Merritt...
16:07I remember it all plain enough.
16:12Friday afternoon's one of my busiest times.
16:16I remember looking at my watch.
16:18That said 4.55.
16:19A couple of vagrants come by.
16:23Then this, uh, girl on a bike.
16:26One of them was blind.
16:29Ugly looking pair, all told.
16:31Looked as if they'd been drinking.
16:35That were all that afternoon.
16:36There weren't no one else come by.
16:38Yeah, I'd remember, wouldn't I?
16:41Yes.
16:42Well,
16:43I'd better be getting along.
16:45Wouldn't want to keep you from all your work, Mr. Merritt.
16:49Don't you worry about that.
16:52Soon as that paint's dry on that bench,
16:54I'll be right up and giving that a second coat.
16:56Ah, light gray, you say, Hastings.
17:04That may be significant.
17:09I'd still like to know what the color of Lowen's trousers
17:12has got to do with anything.
17:14Surely that is obvious, Hastings.
17:15Mr. Merritt says that he did not pass
17:22Mr. Davenheim in the lane, right?
17:25Now, is he lying, Hastings?
17:28Or did he, in fact, kill Mr. Davenheim?
17:33A messy scuffle in the country road,
17:36a disposal of a body in a muddy field,
17:38and still he manages to turn up at the house minutes later,
17:41so immaculately dressed?
17:43Ah.
17:46Seemed rather trivial.
17:48No, Hastings.
17:49Nothing is trivial in the matter of murder.
17:52I commend also for your attention
17:54the fact that before he leaves the room,
17:56Mr. Davenheim puts onto the gramophone
17:58a record of the 1812 overture.
18:01Well, that was highly significant too, was it?
18:03Well, we may as yet be on the wrong track,
18:05but at least it is suggestive.
18:06Track?
18:07That was it.
18:08Gerald Lowen.
18:09Comment?
18:10Gerald Lowen.
18:11Races a couple of Bugattis.
18:14Just beginning to make your name for himself on the circuits.
18:16I bet it's the same chap.
18:17Ah, the racing of the cars, eh?
18:20Round and around in the circles.
18:23Never will I understand the passion
18:24for such a pointless pastime.
18:26Oh, you've got to experience it, Poirot.
18:27The sheer exhilaration.
18:29Flying round by the seat of your pants.
18:30Yes, well, Hastings, perhaps you should try cleaning them first.
18:45All right, lads, fan out.
18:47Keep your eyes open.
18:49All right, lads, we're going to take you to the next door.
19:05Oh, my God!
19:05Let it go!
19:07Hey!
19:07Hey!
19:08Hey!
19:09Hey!
19:09Hey!
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19:17Hey!
19:18Bring it in.
19:44Oh, God.
19:46It's my husband's.
19:48You might just as well admit it, Mr. Poirot.
20:03You can't stand being cooped up here on your own, away from all the action.
20:07Miss Lemony becomes denser by the minute, huh?
20:11If his body had been discovered in the lake, eh bien?
20:14A simple murder problem or an intriguing suicide.
20:17But his clothes are no Monsieur Davenheim, eh?
20:22We are dealing here, Miss Lemony, with a body of evidence requiring the most skilful dissection.
20:28Well, in that case, why don't you call off this stupid bet and get out there ferreting for yourself?
20:33Get out there ferreting, Miss Lemony.
20:36We are not hunting the jackrabbits.
20:37This is a delicate exercise in the skill of...
20:42Miss Lemony on the door, if you please.
20:44Mr. Poirot.
20:49Morning, sir. I've got a parrot for Mr. Poirot.
20:58No, no, no, no. Poirot. It is pronounced Poirot.
21:03I beg your pardon, governor.
21:05I've got a poirot for Mr. Poirot.
21:13But I heard nothing from the Commander Wallis.
21:15He promised me faithfully he was going to clear it with you first.
21:19It's just that he had to dash away to Scotland for a few days and there was no one else who could look after it for him.
21:29Anyway, be a bit of extra company for you as you're stuck inside the office for a week.
21:34You do like birds, don't you, Mr. Poirot?
21:38Miss Lemony, small animals have no part to play in the home life of a private detective from Belgium.
21:44Hello?
21:45Except, of course, as a source of nourishment.
21:49Excuse me, I'm looking for a Mr. Gerald Lowen.
22:17Well, that was him. He'll come back into the paddock next time round.
22:21You're interested in the car?
22:23I say. Never seen a Bugatti fly like that before.
22:26Best time we've ever done.
22:27Really?
22:27Yes, we can meet him by the ship.
22:30So you altered the fuel system?
22:31Oh, yeah, and we took out the dual-belt drive 224 as well.
22:34Oh, march your back, sir.
22:40So you raised the compression ratio?
22:42Oh, yes, uprated the supercharger, sir.
22:44Brilliant. Bet you get a fantastic HP for your reverie.
22:47Uh, this is the gentleman who's interested in the cars.
22:50Captain Hastings. You're Gerald Lowen.
22:53Hastings?
22:55Oh, you'd better take her for a spin.
22:56Really?
22:57That's terribly kind of you.
23:00Oh, well, you sure?
23:02Well, you want to get the whole picture?
23:04Well, of course.
23:05Mr. Lowen?
23:05I'm sorry to trouble you, Mr. Lowen, but I'm from Scotland Yard.
23:22I wonder if you wouldn't mind answering a few questions.
23:27Colonel Brighton, Mr. Lowen.
23:29This is the gentleman I was telling you about
23:30who's interested in buying the car.
23:34Brighton.
23:37Hastings.
23:39Hey, you!
23:40Get out of that damn car!
23:43Captain Hastings.
23:44Chief Inspector.
23:45I think the police have had quite enough of my time, Chief Inspector.
23:57Uh, just one moment, please, Mr. Lowen.
23:59How many more times do you want me to tell you?
24:02I didn't pass Davenheim in that lane.
24:07Perhaps he fell down a rabbit hole.
24:08And good riddance.
24:15I gather he'd given you a bit of a hiding on the markets once or twice, Mr. Lowen.
24:19Scored a few major coups at your personal expense.
24:23Davenheim's wealth was accumulated at many people's expense.
24:26I don't imagine I'm the only financier in the city who bore him a grudge.
24:30Well, you know what it's like.
24:32Oh?
24:33What is it like, Mr. Lowen?
24:35Dog-eat-dog in the city?
24:37High-powered money men going for each other's throats?
24:41Look, if you're suggesting that I killed Davenheim
24:44and then tossed his damn clothes away into that lake...
24:46Clothes in the lake, Mr. Lowen?
24:48I don't think we've officially announced that yet.
24:53Must have heard it on the exchange.
24:59Good God!
25:00You don't think you can keep a thing like that secret, surely?
25:03I'll give Miss Lowen.
25:05Good day.
25:07Good day, Mr. Lowen.
25:20he sounds quite unbearably vain this man Hastings. how did he know about the clothes
25:31in the lake? in the city they would know what we have for breakfast if it was
25:36important to the share prices. where does that leave us then? you think Davonheim's
25:42been kidnapped? where is the ransom note? or the demand? a murder then? where is the
25:52corpse? and what sort of murder is it where the killer removes the clothes of
25:57his victim and throws them into the lake? well those two vagrants could have attacked
26:02him, robbed him of his clothes, then panicking in case the clothes identified
26:07them as the man's killer, tossed them into the water and made a run for it. well
26:11the boatman said he saw nothing. then he spends most of his time asleep anyway.
26:15bravo Hastings. you begin to use your little grass cells huh? of course your
26:22reasoning is fallacious in every respect. your common sneak thieves are very rarely
26:28the murderers Hastings. and unless also he is a member of the magic circle and has
26:35constructed a secret trap door somewhere in the lane. how has he made the body disappear?
26:44and please do not fraternize with that creature. i am still training him.
26:58it's only a parrot. i was talking to the parrot.
27:05old moneybags is still missing it.
27:16i expect he's in rio by now.
27:35and you are certain that the lock
28:05it had been forced nobody knows when could have been like that since friday everything had gone
28:11including the gems the gems all those expensive jewels he kept bringing back cleaned out the lot
28:18huh things are now moving in a very definite direction you cannot fail to see the thread
28:23all the same there are still certain litmus tests to be carried out before we can be absolutely sure
28:31we unless of course you've changed your mind certainly not a wager is a pager Hastings you
28:45are not busy this afternoon well I want you to help me in a little experiment I don't know why
28:57we're all standing around here talking while he's out there going scot free well we have
29:02question mr. low and madam but at the moment we don't actually have any would you mind awfully if
29:07I went to get a glass of water please no no no no I'll go myself the man was determined to ruin my
29:16husband we know that and he was on his own right there in the study for well over an hour we don't
29:24know for sure it was broken into on Friday afternoon I locked it up myself chief inspector just as
29:30Matthew was returning home we couldn't have been burglars since then why haven't any of the doors and windows been forced
29:37in January
29:40it could only have been done by someone who's inside of us
29:41is
29:42it could only have been done by Gerald
29:44Cheryl, huh?
30:14I'm just conducting a little experiment that, um...
30:44It's a wonder Jap didn't lock me up from breaking and entering.
30:49But, Hastings, you performed magnificently.
30:53Well, I don't see what it proves.
30:55Except that you need a strong hand to get that thing open.
30:59Lowen isn't exactly a weakling.
31:01Ah! Our old friend, Monsieur Lowen, huh?
31:04He has suffered so badly at the hands of Monsieur Davenheim
31:07that he vows to exact his revenge on the demon banker.
31:13So first he kills his adversary,
31:15and then he turns up at the house in order to ransack the safe
31:18and make off with the family jewels, huh?
31:20Well, it's the only explanation that fits.
31:23Like the round hole into the square peg.
31:26The opening of the safe door, Hastings.
31:29How did he force open such a lock without being overheard?
31:36As you yourself so expertly demonstrated.
31:39It is quite impossible.
31:41Well, you've only got three days to go.
31:44Ah.
31:46This is quite tasty.
31:48This is a recipe of my own, Hastings.
31:51Oh, yeah.
31:52Nuthusks, birdseed, and the ground cuttlefish.
31:59What do you think then?
32:00Is Davenheim dead or what?
32:02I think, Hastings, that there is much more to the disappearance
32:06of Monsieur Davenheim than it first appears.
32:09But you tell me, mon ami, you are my eyes and ears.
32:12What is our next move?
32:33Brooklands, and the final meeting of an exciting season
32:36brings up the fastest of the speed cars.
32:39With the biggest rules of the day during the big race,
32:41the gold star handicap over a distance of 20 miles.
32:46A keen crowd of enthusiastic spectators
32:48takes advantage of the unusually mild autumn weather
32:51to rally at the famous track.
32:53The drivers go round and round and come out here.
32:56Or at least this one does.
32:58Well, at speed the crowd have come to see
33:00and Gerald Rowan, number three, obliges.
33:09Oh, my God, he took that one a bit fine.
33:23Lowan, cut up beer as Bugatti there on the inside
33:25like nobody's business.
33:27Man's certainly got a ruthless streak in him, and no mistake.
33:29Our ruthless remains to be seen.
33:33We've had him under close surveillance for four days now,
33:35hoping he might point us towards a body.
33:38All he's pointed us towards so far are cartels and carburettors.
33:42Blimey!
33:43Old Shuttleworth's got some juice in that Alfa Romeo.
33:46Must be averaging one-four something at least.
33:48Sorry, James?
33:50Just thinking aloud.
33:52Just thinking aloud.
34:20Look out!
34:22Boy!
34:48Not like that.
34:49Sergeant, copy.
34:50Billy Kelly, to my God.
34:53Some people never give up.
34:55Friend of yours, Sergeant?
34:56The only last winter we put him inside for three months.
34:58Same game, lifting wallets in the crowd.
35:03Looks like mine was the first of the day.
35:07Hello?
35:10Well, now.
35:13How very interesting.
35:15What is it?
35:16Hello?
35:17Ah, Poirot.
35:18Haven't caught you at a bad moment, I hope.
35:19Believe me, my dear Chief Inspector, if you had caught me at a bad moment, I should certainly have told you.
35:37I just thought you'd like to hear the news.
35:41We found the signet ring of Matthew Davenheim.
35:44Matthew Davenheim.
36:08Come over here.
36:09what's the matter then Kellett three months inside last time not enough for
36:19you get homesick for prison did we see the charming house guests we get in here
36:29I never learn of course his type must have an happy time for prison food
36:39I'll ask you once more Kellett where did you get this ring the wrong answer and
36:48your next port of court could be the gallows laddie
36:56well I was with me mate Frankie thank you much you know
37:04I was going down the race town Brooklyn's
37:13hey you want to be careful now my face
37:15I come back on me own about seven o'clock I did a little bit of a drink you know so I
37:23sits down with the side of the road for a little rest
37:25and I was just about doors enough for her when I heard this sound
37:34of something dropping into the leaves of the side
37:38that's when I saw it
37:46so this is his story word for word someone had thrown the ring over the hedge I looks up and
37:58sees this geezer walking away knobby gent with a light gray suit and a poncy mustache
38:04so tell me my dear chief inspector
38:28do you not find it the most remarkable coincidence that the man who stole your wallet should also turn
38:39out to be the most important witness in the case of a monsieur davenheim rather an unfortunate coincidence
38:48from his point of view yes but sometimes the most simple coincidence is not all that she appears
38:55you do follow my train of reasoning no good and since there is at stake five pounds you would
39:08not wish me to elaborate further and of course he denies all knowledge still we're planning to test
39:15Kellett's story with an identity parade it can't be ruled out that he's telling the truth
39:19no but I find it improbable that having removed the ring from off the finger of his victim
39:30monsieur lowen should suddenly decide to toss it away into the ditch
39:35of course he one has to ask though why bother to remove the ring at all valuable piece of
39:47merchandise well not easy to pawn though surely far too easy to recognize that's probably why he took it
39:52off what is it Poirot don't tell me you've sorted it all out perhaps but first I will need the
40:04answer to two questions what was in the bathroom cabinet of michael davenheim on the day that he
40:11disappeared and did he and his wife sleep together or either separate bedchambers
40:19a gentleman to see you madam
40:32I'm most dreadfully sorry to trouble you again mrs. davenheim yes captain hastings
40:43that's a devil of a day out there you can hardly see your hand in front of your face how true miss lemon there are days when none of us can see the hand in front of her face when even I
41:05a cube quireau cannot see what is staring plainly at me between the eyes I think you've lost me again
41:12I think you've lost me again
41:15it is very easy to lose a person
41:21it is very easy to lose a person sometimes because you do not know who it is you are trying to find analysis and synthesis miss lemon there lies the key to the art of deduction to strip apart the evidence detail by detail to its barest essentials
41:48until miraculously all the pieces they just fall into place and we have the complete picture
41:55and we have the complete picture of everything that happened
41:59ah Hastings what news do you have for me the mystery it is solved yes you know Poirot I sometimes wonder if you don't set me these little tasks just to find out how much embarrassment I can take in any one day the facts Hastings this is of critical importance Charlotte and Matthew Davenheim have occupied separate bedrooms since the spring
42:26ah and it is now the middle of October
42:30and the bathroom cabinet
42:33you sure you want to hear all this Hastings do you think I play the games
42:36two toothbrushes one hair brush one pot of skin cream one bottle of liver pills one tube of toothpaste one shaving brush one packet of razor blades one bottle of sleeping pills one nasal spray one bottle of eye drops
42:50thank you Hastings I have heard enough there's another two pages
42:53there's another two pages
42:54the evidence it is complete now Hastings miss lemon I trust you have no moneys deposited in the bank of davenheim and salmon
43:00none
43:01none
43:02no nor me why
43:03because I should advise you to withdraw it all more than me before it is too late
43:06you think there's trouble looming
43:08I expect a big crash within the next few days miss lemon perhaps sooner
43:11so if you please a note to the Chief Inspector Shapp
43:14advise you to withdraw any moneys deposited with the firm in question
43:23still he will not comprehend
43:25I'm not sure I comprehend
43:27Hastings as I told you at the start
43:29once all the facts were placed before me
43:31the solution becomes inevitable
43:34all right
43:37how did you know
43:39or are you going to tell me it was all done with mirrors
43:42you will permit me my dear Chief Inspector
43:45one moment longer of the suspense
43:47I have as I promised
43:49solved this mystery without leaving my apartment
43:51well so you say
43:53but I'm still pretty much in the dark
43:55very well
43:56I will simply draw your attention to three details
44:00which taken together are really quite conclusive
44:03one
44:05what is significant about the period of time
44:08that Monsieur Davenheim spent during the winter in Johannesburg
44:12two
44:14why had he and his wife not been sleeping together in the same bedchamber
44:18from that moment on
44:20and three
44:22what was in the bathroom cabinet belonging to Monsieur Davenheim
44:26which should never have been there
44:28hmm
44:30I give up
44:31I give up
44:33I give up
44:34I give up
44:35I give up
44:36I give up
44:37what's up
44:38Chief Inspector
44:39this afternoon you are staging the identity parade
44:42for the scoundrel Kellett to point out Monsieur Lowen
44:45I think you will find the results really
44:48yes quite surprising
44:50you will not object if I leave the confines of my apartment to witness
44:54the conclusion of our wager
45:00all right son
45:10in your own time if you would now
45:12this is him he threw the ring into the ditch
45:27why you lose from all
45:41you filthy little liar
45:43you killing Davenheim
45:45you
45:49get your heart
45:50I'm busy
45:51I'm busy
45:52you filthy little chick
45:53take it away
45:54So, now, what do you make of that, Poirot?
46:15I'd say Lowen's as good as shopped himself.
46:18On the contrary, my dear chief inspector,
46:20a mere moment of the hot-headed rage.
46:22Monsieur Gerard Lowen could not be more innocent in this whole bizarre affair.
46:26Couldn't he?
46:27Well, then, perhaps it's about time you explain to us what the hell is going on.
46:38Mrs. Charlotte Davenheim, sir.
46:42Oh, Monsieur Poirot.
46:43Madame.
46:44I came as soon as I could.
46:47Oh, what is it?
46:48If you found anything out, then, for God's sake, please, don't...
46:53Oh!
46:54Stop him!
46:59Or are they callets?
47:00And what's all this about?
47:02Or perhaps I should ask you that question.
47:06Mais certainement, my dear chief inspector.
47:09I think that this charade has gone on quite long enough.
47:14Has it not?
47:19Gentlemen, may I present to you the missing merchant banker, Matthew Davenheim.
47:32Damn you.
47:35You...
47:37Belgian.
47:38Take him to the stairs.
47:39Take him to the stairs.
47:58From the start, I was intrigued by Monsieur Davenheim buying of the priceless jewelry for his wife.
48:04For years, you see, he had been embezzling vast sums of money from his own bank.
48:09Draining it to death, as we have seen.
48:12And converting the spoils into the gems which he stores in the safe.
48:16So he'd always planned to abscond with them, right from the very start.
48:19Having first very cleverly prearranged with his hated-out rival in the city, Monsieur Gerard Lowen, to be at his house on that day.
48:30So that he would become the chief suspect in this unfortunate affair.
48:33So Davenheim had already forced his own safe open before he left the house that day.
48:42Using the good Monsieur Tchaikovsky as his accomplice.
48:45Cunningly, he uses the cannon fire in the music to mask any sound that would have allotted his wife.
48:58Having made it look as if the safe has been broken into, he steals his own money and jewels.
49:09Because he believes he has found for himself, until all has blown over, the most perfect place to hide.
49:16In prison.
49:19You see, during the winter, when he was supposedly in Johannesburg, Monsieur Davenheim was in fact creating the character of Billy Kellett, spending the three months in jail.
49:32He returns to the racetrack to steal the wallet, knowing he will be caught and put once again behind bars.
49:39And no one will suspect a thing.
49:41Of course, he always meant for you to find in his pocket the ring.
49:47So he could use it to further incriminate Monsieur Gerard Lowen.
49:53And the contents of the bathroom cabinet?
49:56A razor blade, Sistings.
49:58When resuming his identity, Monsieur Davenheim was forced to wear the false beard.
50:06To share the same bedchamber as his wife would certainly lead to detection.
50:09In fact, he was still shaving from time to time, in order to become Billy Kellett again.
50:18Not again.
50:36Just so no one can say I'm not a man to honor my work.
50:39Ah, mon pauvre j'aime, huh?
50:46It's like robbing a baby.
50:49Robbing a baby?
50:52However, it is more remuneration
50:55for the seven days in forced confinement to my own home,
50:59having to listen to the nonstop demented squawks
51:02and the screechings.
51:05Ah, mes, madame et monsieur,
51:07I want you to observe something very closely.
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