#casanova #romeoandjuliet #thescapegoat
A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London. Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran.
A spate of petty thefts is followed by a series of brutal murders at a student hostel in London. Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran.
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02:48I don't know about this, Poirot, but I can assure you, Chief Inspector, it is of the
02:55quality most fine.
02:56Well, I'm sure, but...
02:57Yes, sir.
02:58Have you got a nice bit of scrag-end?
03:01Scrag-end, sir?
03:02Uh, no, no, no, no.
03:05No, Chief Inspector, the scrag-end, it is an animal native to Isleworth.
03:10It does not, I think, habituate elsewhere.
03:12No, no, no.
03:13Might I suggest a morceau de filet mignon, cooked à point, avec la sauce béarnaise?
03:21All right, then.
03:23Thank you, sir.
03:26And the good Madame Jap, she is away for how long?
03:29Another week.
03:30Should have been my holiday, too, you know, Poirot.
03:33So are the, um, how do you call it, um, the leaving.
03:36It has been cancelled.
03:38All leave cancelled, yes.
03:39It's these men from Jarrow.
03:41We've got 200 of them heading for London, and suddenly the government's reading the
03:44riot act.
03:45But even so, Chief Inspector, it gives you the chance once again to enjoy the life of
03:50the single man, n'est-ce pas?
03:52I'm not sure about enjoy.
03:54Sir?
03:55That will be six shillings.
03:57I beg your pardon?
04:03Six shillings for a piece of meat?
04:05That's three days' housekeeping, Poirot.
04:06Very conscientious.
04:07Spare some money, sir.
04:08Hold on a minute, Poirot.
04:09All the Jarrow marchers.
04:10Here's the best expense, sir.
04:11For the Jarrow marchers.
04:1290 more, I can't.
04:13Any change?
04:14Jarrow marchers.
04:15Any change for the marchers, sir?
04:16You're reading of Sir Arthur Stanley?
04:17Yes.
04:18He is the champion, is he not, of the men marching now to London?
04:19Excuse me, sir.
04:20That's right.
04:21I met him once, about 10 years ago.
04:22You are an admirer of his?
04:23I wouldn't say that.
04:24I don't think so.
04:25I don't think so.
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04:32I don't think so.
04:33I don't think so.
04:34I met him once, about 10 years ago.
04:35You are an admirer of his?
04:36I wouldn't say that.
04:37Well, I'd best be getting back, Poirot.
04:38I've got the dusting to do.
04:39But Chief Inspector, now is the time to consider your dessert.
04:40That's all right, Poirot.
04:41I think I'll forget about the dessert.
04:42Jarrow marchers.
04:43Here's the best expense, sir.
04:44For the Jarrow marchers.
04:45Any change?
04:46No change.
04:47I don't think so.
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05:39American?
05:40That's right.
05:41Sally Finch.
05:42On holiday?
05:43No.
05:44I'm studying.
05:45English literature.
05:46I've just had a week's vacation
05:47in Amsterdam.
05:56Leonard Bateson.
06:07I should have warned you, Sally.
06:09They don't like young people, students, or foreigners.
06:13Are you two traveling together?
06:14Yes.
06:15Well, let's have a look inside there.
07:0968%, Nigel.
07:12That's the number of jobless in Jarrow.
07:14Where is Jarrow?
07:16Oh, but that's just the point.
07:19That's why they're marching here.
07:21Hello.
07:23Welcome back, the weary travelers.
07:25How was Amsterdam, Sally?
07:26Oh, it was wonderful.
07:28It was just a journey back.
07:30It was hell.
07:31Do you know, they nearly arrested me for smuggling.
07:33Smuggling what?
07:34100 cigarettes.
07:36Maybe that's why the police are coming here, then.
07:38The police?
07:39They're not coming here, are they?
07:41Guilty conscience, Celia.
07:43What do they want?
07:44I don't know.
07:45Marl Hubbard told me just now.
07:48They're investigating something.
07:50Maybe it's something to do with all these thefts.
07:52It's about time.
07:54They wouldn't call the police for that, would they?
07:58I don't know.
08:00Anyway, I have to make a call.
08:03I'll see you.
08:07You seem to have rattled our American friend, Patricia.
08:10Maybe she's the one with a guilty conscience.
08:14There's only a constable this evening.
08:17It's about some poor man shot in Soho.
08:20The police think he was a foreigner, maybe a student.
08:23And that's why they're checking here?
08:25Yes.
08:26They're visiting all the student hostels,
08:29as if we don't have problems enough.
08:31It's still happening, then?
08:33Yes.
08:35I mean, a stethoscope, cigarette lighter, bracelet,
08:40box of boracic powder, the list goes on and on.
08:43You know I could have a word with Mr. Poirot.
08:47Oh, no.
08:49Don't be silly, Felicity dear.
08:51No, it's our problem.
08:52We'll deal with it.
08:53There you are.
08:56Good afternoon, Mrs. Nicolettis.
08:57I don't believe you've met my sister.
08:59Sister, no.
09:00It's you I must speak with, Mrs. Hufford.
09:02These bills.
09:03I was just about to leave.
09:05Oh, please, Mrs. Nicolettis.
09:06Can't this wait?
09:07All right.
09:08You can stay.
09:09We can talk tomorrow or the day after.
09:11But soon, before I ruin.
09:16That was Mrs. Nicolettis.
09:19She owns the hostel.
09:21Nicolettis, that's a Greek name, isn't it?
09:24Yes.
09:25I suppose that explains it.
09:51Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
09:55hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
09:59hickory.
10:00Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:04hickory.
10:05Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:09hickory.
10:10Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:14hickory.
10:15Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:20hickory.
10:21Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:25hickory.
10:26Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:30hickory.
10:31Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:35hickory.
10:36Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:40hickory.
10:41Hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory, hickory,
10:45hickory.
10:47Quick.
10:48Quick.
10:49Give it to me.
10:50Let go.
10:51Now.
10:52Ah.
10:53Good evening, officer.
10:54Go in.
10:55Go in.
10:56Ah.
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11:18Good evening, officer.
11:19Do come through.
11:20The students are waiting for you, if you'd care to come this way.
11:22Ah.
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11:46Mmm.
11:47These are good.
11:50The best yet.
11:56Christina,
11:58what's the matter?
12:01I frightened George Rose.
12:04I have enough.
12:06You're afraid?
12:07All of the police?
12:09No, not the police.
12:12I lose in control.
12:16No, no, no, no, no.
12:23No, no, no, no, no.
12:29No, that's not possible.
12:34Miss Lemon!
12:37Miss Lemon.
12:40There are three of them.
12:45There are three mistakes in this letter.
12:58Oh, Mr. Poirot.
13:00But this never happened before, not once, and now the three errors of typing on the one page?
13:06Mr. Poirot, I don't know what to say.
13:10You are perhaps unwell?
13:12No.
13:14Yes.
13:16I suppose in a way I am.
13:19I've been very worried, Mr. Poirot.
13:22It's my sister Florence.
13:24One moment, if you please, Miss Lemon.
13:27You have a sister?
13:29Yes.
13:31She lived in Singapore, but then her husband died, and now she's the housekeeper at a hostel.
13:36A student hostel in Hickory Road.
13:39And it is this sister of yours who has a problem?
13:41Yes.
13:43Things have been disappearing, odd things, and in a most unusual way.
13:50She's worried, Mr. Poirot, and I suppose that's what's worrying me.
13:55I see.
13:58How would it be, Miss Lemon, if you and I would have tea with your sister this afternoon?
14:05Could you, Mr. Poirot?
14:07Would you?
14:11Stethoscope, cigarette lighter, box of boracic powder, electric light bulbs, evening shoe.
14:19Only the one shoe?
14:21Yes.
14:24Please to continue, Madam Hubbard.
14:27Silk scarf, rucksack.
14:30We found that cut up in the boiler room outside in the backyard.
14:34And one of the girls, Patricia, lost a diamond ring.
14:38Although we got that back, too.
14:40And how did you get that back, Madam?
14:42Well, it was a most extraordinary thing. It turned up in the soup.
14:45Doesn't make any sense at all, does it, Mr. Poirot?
14:48No, it is indeed most unusual, Miss Lemon.
14:51Merci.
14:54I must congratulate you, Madam Hubbard.
14:57I'm sorry?
14:58No, I must congratulate you on having a problem so unique and beautiful.
15:02Oh.
15:05Madam Hubbard, are you able to describe for me this shoe?
15:08Oh, certainly. It was most distinctive.
15:10Distinctive?
15:12But what are you going to do about it, Mr. Poirot?
15:15Et bien, to begin with, I must make the acquaintance of the students who live at number 26 Hickory Road.
15:20But in a manner that will not, how do you say, wake up the suspicion.
15:39Mrs. Hubbard, who is this man, Hercule Poirot?
15:44Mr. Poirot, Mrs. Nicolettis.
15:47He's a famous private detective.
15:50A private detective? Here, in my hostel?
15:54Well, the students will be very interested.
15:56You don't have any objection, do you?
15:58No. Why should I object to Mr. Poirot?
16:05You'll be able to come, won't you, Patricia?
16:08Oh, yes. I'll be here.
16:11No, no, no, no. You don't understand, Celia.
16:14Look, I could murder someone if I wanted to, but only if there was no motive.
16:20How can I understand when you don't explain it to me, Colin?
16:24But I have explained it.
16:27Have you heard about this great detective we've got coming to see us?
16:31Yes, Val. I saw him, our Hubbard, just now.
16:33He's certainly got Colin going, I'm afraid.
16:37I'm just saying murderers get caught because they have a motive.
16:40Take away the motive, and they are invisible.
16:43That's a horrible thought.
16:45Is there any milk left, or has that been stolen as well?
16:49I finished it.
16:53If you ask me, that's what we need here, a detective.
16:56Oh, come on, Patricia.
16:58No, I hate it here.
17:00Always wondering what's going to vanish next.
17:03Maybe this Mr Poirot will be able to sort it out.
17:30C'est bon.
17:44Merci.
17:57I'm Celia Austin, Mr Poirot.
17:59I'm on a part-time course in chemistry.
18:02Colin McNabb, psychology.
18:04I'm Patricia Lane, I'm studying politics.
18:07I'm Sally Finch, I'm here on a Fulbright scholarship, studying English Lit.
18:12Valerie Hobhouse, studying fashion, and creating it.
18:16Leonard Bateson, soon to be Dr Leonard Bateson, studying medicine.
18:23And I'm Nigel Chapman, studying medieval history and archaeology.
18:28Well, if that's the introductions over, let's have the soup, Ma, I'm starving.
18:33Are you going to talk to us about crime, Mr Poirot?
18:36After the supper, oui.
18:39That is indeed my intention.
18:41You know, Colin thinks he'd make a good detective.
18:44Or a good criminal.
18:46Well, why not?
18:47If you understood the psychology of a crime the way I do, then you could disguise it.
18:53And that way, you would never be caught.
18:55What a frightening thought.
18:57Yes, indeed.
18:59But it is wrong.
19:01Why?
19:04Because the little gray cells, they see everything.
19:07It is the clues, always the little mistakes that the criminal ignores,
19:11that opens the door to the psychology, and so to the crime.
19:17I still think Colin's right.
19:19You enjoy your dinner, Mr Poirot.
19:21We'll have time for making speeches later.
19:28A medicina, Mr Poirot.
19:32It come from my hometown.
19:42You see, always the prevention is better than the cure.
19:47And so we try to prevent the murders before they are committed.
19:58Now, has anyone got any questions?
20:01Yes, I have one.
20:04What I'd like to know is, what's your real motive in coming here tonight?
20:10Really, Len?
20:11Oh, come on, Ma.
20:12You arranged this dinner at short notice, and with Mr Poirot, of all people.
20:17You've come to investigate us, haven't you?
20:20There hasn't been a murder here, has there?
20:22No.
20:23It's about other thefts, isn't it?
20:25It's about other thefts, isn't it?
20:28That's why he's here.
20:30Oui.
20:32That is indeed why I am here, mademoiselle.
20:37Well, I'll be.
20:39Well, it's either Mr Poirot or the police.
20:41We have to do something.
20:43Yes, but what can you do?
20:45Move in and spy on us?
20:47No, no, no, no, no.
20:48But I can begin with the return of something to its owner.
20:52Coupé, Miss Lemon.
21:02That's my shoe.
21:05My last shoe.
21:06How the hell did you do that?
21:08You haven't got my lighter, have you?
21:10And my stethoscope.
21:11Where did you find it, Mr Poirot?
21:13Ah, mademoiselle Patricia.
21:14It was you, was it not, who had lost a diamond ring?
21:18Yes, but I found it again.
21:19In my soup.
21:21And the soup, it was served then in exactly the same manner as it was tonight?
21:24Yes.
21:26To hell with the ring.
21:27Tell us about the shoe.
21:30Miss Lemon.
21:33Acting on Mr Poirot's instructions,
21:36I picked it up this afternoon at the London Transport lost property office.
21:42How did you know to look there?
21:44A simple process of deduction, mademoiselle.
21:46One shoe, it cannot be worn, and it is not possible to sell.
21:51The simplest way...
21:53Is to leave it on a bus or a train.
21:55Oui, c'est ça.
21:57That was my guess, and of course I was right.
22:00The shoe, it was discovered on a bus with a number 42.
22:04Now that bus, I believe, passes close by?
22:07That bus goes to the hospital.
22:09Ah, well, that narrows the field a bit.
22:12I'm studying medicine, I take that bus every day.
22:15Come on, Len, you're not the only one.
22:17I go on that bus too.
22:19I have an afternoon job in the pharmacy.
22:21Any one of us could have got on that bus, it doesn't prove anything.
22:24I am of your opinion, Monsieur Chapman.
22:27Any one of you could be the thief.
22:30So, what do you advise us to do?
22:38There is something here at Hickory Road that I do not like.
22:42It causes me to fear.
22:45The rucksack that is cut to pieces?
22:48That is not nice.
22:51You ask my advice?
22:53It is this.
22:55Go to the police.
22:57Go now, Madame.
22:59No time can be lost.
23:13Ah, no more diamonds.
23:17Not for a long time.
23:22This man, Poirot.
23:24He's dangerous.
23:26He has nothing to do with us. We can go on as usual.
23:29No, Georgios.
23:31This is my business. I make the rules.
23:34Then tell me who's working for you.
23:36Who are you afraid of?
23:38No.
23:39It's better you not know.
23:42Better for you.
23:49Mr Poirot.
23:51Celia Austen and Colin McNabb are here to see you from Hickory Road.
23:55Pleased to show them in, Miss Lemon.
24:09Mr Poirot.
24:11I had to see you.
24:13After what you said last night.
24:15Mademoiselle Celia.
24:16Monsieur McNabb.
24:18Asseyez-vous, s'il vous plaît.
24:24Mr Poirot.
24:26I'm the thief.
24:29I took those things.
24:31No, you're not a thief, Celia.
24:33It's not the right word.
24:35I feel terrible.
24:36Look, she couldn't help it.
24:38It's a medical condition. It's not a case for the police.
24:41So you believe, Mademoiselle, that you suffer from the medical condition known as the kleptomania?
24:45Yes. Yes.
24:47I never meant to take anything, but I couldn't help it.
24:50Celia's going to return everything.
24:52I can't return the bracelet or the cigarette lighter.
24:55I put them down a gutter.
24:57But I'll buy new ones.
24:59And what about the stethoscope, Mademoiselle?
25:01Where did you put that?
25:03I didn't take the stethoscope.
25:04I'd never take anything as expensive as that.
25:06But you stole the diamond ring belonging to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, did you not?
25:10Yes.
25:12But it was a mistake.
25:14When I realized it was valuable, I returned it.
25:16Celia told me everything after you went last night.
25:20I think she's been very brave.
25:28Mademoiselle.
25:30For which of these thefts were you not responsible?
25:36Tell me the truth.
25:42Not Len's rucksack. I didn't take that.
25:44And I didn't cut it up.
25:47Not the light bulbs.
25:49Not the bracelet.
25:51Come on.
25:53I hope you're satisfied, Mr. Poirot.
25:56I'm writing to Mrs. Hubbard to apologize,
25:59and I'm going to tell everyone.
26:01Listen, don't worry.
26:03From now on, I'm going to look after you.
26:09Mademoiselle,
26:11what you have done,
26:15it is good.
26:17No more talk of the police, then?
26:19As far as you are concerned, Mademoiselle,
26:22no.
26:25Thank you, Mr. Poirot.
26:27Just talking to you, I feel better already.
26:30Mademoiselle. Monsieur McNamara.
26:33Au revoir.
26:35Come on, Celia.
26:56You know, Mr. Poirot,
26:58I think we've just been watching a modern love scene.
27:02Eh bien, Miss Lemon,
27:04nowadays it is the maladjusted lives and the complexes
27:07that bring together the young people.
27:09Well, Florence will be glad it's all over.
27:13All over, Miss Lemon?
27:16No.
27:18It is now that I fear that it may begin.
27:26So, you went to see the great Monsieur Poirot?
27:30Yes.
27:32He was very kind to me.
27:34You've all been kind.
27:36I don't deserve it.
27:38Oh, come on, see. Collins explained.
27:41It wasn't your fault and you didn't do any real harm.
27:44Oh, what about my rucksack? That wasn't cheap, you know.
27:47That wasn't me, Len.
27:49And I didn't take your stethoscope either.
27:51I told you.
27:53It's not up to me to tell you,
27:55but I know who it was and I've spoken to them
27:58and they've promised to come forward.
28:00Here you are, Celia.
28:04Anyone else for coffee?
28:06No, thanks, Colin.
28:10I've got some work to do.
28:14Where is everyone tonight?
28:16I've got some work to do.
28:19Where is everyone tonight?
28:46TICKERING
29:05TICKERING
29:13TICKERING
29:16TICKERING
29:46TICKERING
29:50TICKERING
29:53TICKERING
30:02Hello, Pat. Where are you sneaking in from?
30:05I wasn't sneaking. I was at the cinema.
30:16TICKERING
30:46TICKERING
31:02TICKERING
31:12SCREAMS
31:16TICKERING
31:18TICKERING
31:20TICKERING
31:22TICKERING
31:26This is the national programme of the BBC.
31:29Here is the news.
31:31The Jarrow Marchers arrived last night in Bedford.
31:34They received a warm welcome from the Mayor on behalf of his time.
31:38And in a special church service, prayers were said for their cause.
31:43The Marchers are expected in London in three days' time for a rally in Hyde Park.
31:48They will also present a petition with 12,000 signatures to the Prime Minister.
31:53Jap here.
31:57Right. I'm on my way.
31:59They say the Marchers are merely exercising their constitutional right to present a petition.
32:13What, you here, Poirot?
32:15Yes, Chief Inspector. I came as soon as I heard.
32:18Have you been unwell, Chief Inspector?
32:21What?
32:23No, I'm all right, thank you very much.
32:26Let's go in.
32:31Who called the police without consulting me?
32:34The police here in my respectable hostel is outrage!
32:38Please, Mrs Nicolettis.
32:40I'm afraid this is a police matter, Mrs Nicolettis.
32:43Poirot! You! It is your fault!
32:47You come here to my hostel, you frightened my students with your accusation,
32:51and now see the result!
32:53Come on now, Mrs Nicolettis. Let me take you upstairs.
32:56No, I'm not going.
33:00Why did that detective come here in my hostel?
33:04Now, this paper, it is of a type used for the sleeping draft, is it not?
33:14And yet...
33:18Morphine?
33:20Indeed so.
33:23So, Celia Austin was a kleptomaniac.
33:26She admits it to you, and now this.
33:28Yes.
33:30Could it have been suicide?
33:33The sleeping draft exchanged for the poison, no letter of regret?
33:38No, I think not, Chief Inspector.
33:41But who would want to kill her? And why?
33:45Poirot?
33:47See here, Chief Inspector, there is a fire escape.
33:54It connects also, I see, with the room next door.
33:57And who has that?
34:00It belongs, I think, to the American girl, Mademoiselle Sally Finch.
34:07Mademoiselle Celia had, as they say, a room with a view.
34:16I do not believe that Mademoiselle Celia Austin was a kleptomaniac.
34:19Well, what was she then?
34:20I give it to you as my opinion that her pilfering of the petty objects was done with a purpose.
34:25What purpose?
34:26Well, let us suppose that Mademoiselle Celia had feelings, eh?
34:29Just strong feelings for a man whose passion was for the psychology,
34:34but that this man ignored her.
34:36Ah, you're talking about, what did you say his name was? Colin McNabb?
34:39Right.
34:40Well, let's go and see what he has to say.
34:45So, you're telling me that Celia did what she did just to attract me.
34:51She just wasn't bright enough to think up an idea like that.
34:54But you yourself were attracted to her, were you not, Monsieur Colin?
34:57She was a fascinating case. Was it suicide?
35:01No, Monsieur McNabb. It would seem that she's been poisoned.
35:04Poisoned?
35:05With morphine.
35:07Morphine?
35:11That's not possible.
35:12Why not?
35:14I mean, nobody would want to kill her. Not Celia.
35:20You speak then of a murder without a motive?
35:23Well...
35:25I don't know.
35:28Monsieur Colin, you were with Mademoiselle Celia on the evening of her death?
35:33Yes.
35:34Did she say anything then which you might now recall in view of what has occurred?
35:38Well, there was one thing.
35:41It was to do with the... the thefts.
35:45She said she knew who had taken Len's rucksack.
35:48I don't suppose she gave you a name?
35:50No.
35:51She said she'd spoken to someone, but...
35:55Oh, come on. For heaven's sake.
35:58Colin.
35:59Thank God, so it's true.
36:02I only just heard.
36:03Who are you?
36:04Nigel Chapman. I live here.
36:05You're a student?
36:06Yes.
36:08How did it happen?
36:09They're saying she was poisoned, Nigel.
36:12With morphine.
36:15Poison?
36:16Poison.
36:19I don't think it's worked out quite as you expect. It hasn't, Mr. P.
36:22Do you have any idea who might have wanted to kill Miss Austin?
36:25No.
36:26You sure it wasn't suicide?
36:29Monsieur Nigel, who was here at the hostel last night?
36:32Oh, we all were, I think.
36:34Except Patricia. She must have come in late.
36:36I think someone got into her room and put in a sleeping draught.
36:40In her room?
36:43Last night?
36:44There is something you wish to tell us, Monsieur Nigel?
36:48Well, yes.
36:50Look, I don't want to be a snitch.
36:52This is a murder investigation, Mr. Chapman.
36:55Yes.
36:58Well, my roommate, Len Bateson, I saw him go into C's room.
37:03At what time?
37:05It was about an hour after dinner. I was just having a bath.
37:09But look, Len would never hurt anyone.
37:12I'm sure there's a perfectly simple explanation.
37:17I may be wrong, Poirot,
37:19but it seemed to me that the mention of morphine meant something to those two.
37:22Chief Inspector, the morphine, from where do you think it had come?
37:27You tell me.
37:28Miss Lemon?
37:29This girl, Celia Austin,
37:32didn't she say she worked in the pharmacy at the hospital?
37:37Exactement.
37:43You're quite right.
37:45I don't understand it.
37:47We are missing a bottle of morphine tartrate.
37:49When might it have been taken?
37:51It's impossible to say.
37:53It's not a drug we use very often.
37:56It could have been taken any time within the last three months,
37:59since our last stocktaking.
38:00But entry to the pharmacy, it is, of course, restricted.
38:04Absolutely.
38:06There was Celia.
38:08Two other women dispensers.
38:10Myself, of course.
38:11And the doctors?
38:14Some doctors used the pharmacy as a shortcut.
38:18But I know them.
38:20Could Celia Austin have taken the morphine herself?
38:24I suppose so.
38:26But Celia was very scrupulous.
38:28It would have been very unlike her.
38:30How about friends?
38:31Did anyone ever visit her?
38:33There was one chap who used to come and see her, as a matter of fact.
38:37But he was no outsider.
38:38He was a medical student working here.
38:40And what was his name, sir?
38:45Bateson.
38:46Leonard Bateson.
38:55Mr Leonard, you and Mlle Celia were on the Thames amicable?
38:59We were friends, yes.
39:00And sometimes you visited her in the pharmacy?
39:03What? And stole the poison while I was there?
39:06Come on, Mr Poirot, what do you take me for?
39:08What were you doing in her room last night?
39:09Who said I was?
39:11You'd be well advised to answer my questions civilly, Mr Bateson.
39:16You can't intimidate me, Chief Inspector.
39:24Yes, I did go into her room. I was looking for my stethoscope.
39:27But Celia didn't take the stethoscope.
39:30That's what she said.
39:32But it cost me a packet and I wanted to be sure.
39:34You mean you searched her room?
39:36I had a quick look round. It wasn't there.
39:38Mr Leonard, you have not yet asked what poison it was that was stolen.
39:42Then tell me.
39:43Morphine tartrate.
39:48But it wasn't me.
39:53On to hell with you. I didn't take anything.
39:58Where is that?
40:00Would you stand back, please, and give us a chance?
40:06Have you examined Sir Arthur yet?
40:08Not yet, not yet.
40:09How long will Sir Arthur be staying here, Doctor?
40:10I have no idea.
40:11Will he be well enough to meet the geromologist next week, Doctor?
40:15Really, Mr Porrow, these young people, they have no respect for anyone.
40:20It is a symptom of the modern age, Miss Leonard.
40:22My God.
40:28Ah, the girl. It is Madam Patricia Laney.
40:30No, not her. The man she's speaking to.
40:34I know him.
40:39Mr Porrow.
40:40Madam Patricia.
40:41Miss Lane, that man you were just speaking to.
40:44He's a friend of Sir Arthur Stanley's.
40:47Well, you must have heard. He's just been admitted here.
40:50You know Sir Arthur?
40:52No, but I'm studying politics.
40:55Sir Arthur Stanley's always been something of a hero of mine.
41:00He's changed British politics.
41:03He's changed Britain.
41:04He's changed British politics.
41:07Why do you ask?
41:09No reason.
41:13Mademoiselle, you have heard, of course, about the death of Mademoiselle Celia Austin.
41:17Yes. I've just come from Hickory Road.
41:21Mrs Hubbard told me.
41:24It's ghastly.
41:26Tell me, Mademoiselle, you were not present at the hostel last night?
41:30No, I'd been out. I came back late.
41:32So you didn't see anything that might help us?
41:35Well, there was one thing.
41:37I don't know if it means anything, but as I got back I noticed somebody coming out of the window, onto the fire escape.
41:44The fire escape?
41:46I don't want to get anyone into trouble.
41:48Miss Lane?
41:50I know.
41:53It was Sally.
41:55Sally Finch.
41:57I've often thought there was something strange about her.
42:00And it was her.
42:02I'm sure.
42:04Do you know where we could find her?
42:22You were seen, Miss Finch.
42:25Well, I don't know who told you that, but it's complete nonsense.
42:27I was in my room all night.
42:29But your room does open out onto the fire escape.
42:32What of it? I didn't go anywhere.
42:35Mademoiselle...
42:36Shh.
42:39Mademoiselle Sally, you are on the terms amicable with the other students?
42:43Some of them.
42:45I've just had a vacation with Len Bateson.
42:48A week in Amsterdam.
42:50This was before the rucksack was stolen.
42:53It was taken from me.
42:54The rucksack was stolen?
42:56It was taken the same day we got back.
43:00That was the day the police came.
43:02The police?
43:03Sure.
43:04There'd been a murder in Soho and they were checking all the hostels.
43:07If the suspect was young and foreign, that would have been routine.
43:09All the same, it is strange, is it not?
43:11So the rucksack should be taken on the same day of this visit?
43:14And the light bulbs.
43:15They went at the same time, too.
43:18Ah.
43:20Mademoiselle Sally, you are here, I understand, on a Fulbright scholarship?
43:24That's right.
43:27And...
43:31You are studying, I see...
43:35John Keats?
43:36Yes.
43:38He's my speciality.
43:40Let me see.
43:43And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
43:46who totters forth, wrapped in a cozy veil.
43:51You know your Keats.
43:58It is interesting that Mademoiselle Sally...
44:00She was lying about the fire escape.
44:02And there is more.
44:03She professes to be the expert on John Keats,
44:06and yet the lines that I quoted to her...
44:08They were from Shirley.
44:10You know your Keats.
44:11She was lying about the fire escape.
44:13And there is more.
44:14She professes to be the expert on John Keats,
44:16and yet the lines that I quoted to her...
44:18They were from Shirley.
44:39Come on.
44:56Poor Celia.
44:58She wasn't that bright or anything.
45:00I liked her.
45:02You were close?
45:03We were friends.
45:04But we were all friends at Hickory Road.
45:06Tell me, Mademoiselle Valerie,
45:07what is it that you do here in the fashion house?
45:09At Sabrina Fair.
45:11I'm working with them for a year as part of my course,
45:13Fashion and Design.
45:16Then you assist in the...
45:19How do you say?
45:20The displays of fashion?
45:22Yes.
45:23And they take me abroad, to Paris, Milan.
45:26I'm having a wonderful time.
45:28I'm sure.
45:30And these particular dresses,
45:32it is of your own design?
45:33Yes.
45:35Oh,
45:36Michelin Maragard.
45:38How beautiful.
45:40Did you make it yourself?
45:42Yes.
45:43What unusual stitch work.
45:50One final question, if I may, Mademoiselle.
45:53What's that?
45:54Would it be of significance if I were to tell you
45:57that the cause of death of Mademoiselle Celia Austen
46:00was poisoning by morphine?
46:02No.
46:05Not at all.
46:11Au revoir.
46:13Right.
46:14Well, I must be getting home.
46:16No, no, no, no, no.
46:17No, Chief Inspector.
46:19Tell me, the good Madame Jap, she's still not returned?
46:22No.
46:23I thought as much.
46:24I also.
46:27Et bien.
46:28I have la bonne idée.
46:30I have la bonne idée.
46:34How would it be, Chief Inspector,
46:35if you and I were to have dinner together this evening?
46:37What?
46:38I have to say, Poirot,
46:39I could do with a good square meal.
46:41Mind you,
46:42it's a bit of a step back all the way to Isleworth,
46:45Mr Poirot.
46:46A vrai dire.
46:47Alors, the simplest way
46:48is to have the Chief Inspector stay with me
46:50until the good Madame Jap, she returns.
46:52What?
46:53Stay with you?
46:55No, he'll make up a spare bed.
46:58Oh.
46:59That's very decent of you, Poirot.
47:03You accept?
47:06Yes.
47:08With pleasure.
47:25You are settled in, Chief Inspector?
47:27Yes, thank you, Poirot.
47:28I put him in the back room, Mr Poirot.
47:30Something smells good.
47:32Merci.
47:33It is mon assiette au saveur.
47:35It was a speciality of my mother
47:37when I myself was a student.
47:40S'il vous plaît, Miss Lemont.
47:42That's very kind of you, Mr Poirot.
47:44Chief Inspector.
47:46What's that thing in the bathroom, Poirot?
47:48Comment?
47:49Like a foot bath.
47:53The bidet.
47:54Oh, bidet.
47:55It's got a sort of fountain thing in the middle.
47:57What's that for?
47:59It is of no significance.
48:03Nearly got a squirt in the eye when I turned it on.
48:07It is best not to tamper with it, Chief Inspector.
48:10It is broken.
48:14I will get the food.
48:17Must say, I'm looking forward to this, Miss Lemont.
48:19You look like a man in need of his dinner, Chief Inspector.
48:23That thing in the bathroom, though.
48:25It is best not to bother Miss Lemont
48:27with the deficiencies of our plumbing, Chief Inspector.
48:30Et maintenant, mon assiette au saveur.
48:34Voilà.