#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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02:56Come in.
03:05Everything is going wrong.
03:07Why are you doing these things?
03:09It's not part of the plan.
03:11Why you do these things?
03:13That girl Celia, you finish.
03:15I will tell.
03:27She's going to kill me.
03:32She's going to kill me.
03:39Stabbed through the heart.
03:41With the precision of this medical, you might say, Chief Inspector.
03:44Now, there's a thought.
03:46Leonard Bateson's trying to be a doctor, isn't he?
03:49Yes, indeed.
03:51What's going on, Poirot?
03:53The Celia Austin pilfers a whole lot of useless things.
03:56It wasn't Celia who stole the light bulbs or the rucksack.
03:59No, but someone kills her.
04:01And now Mrs Nicolettis, who owns the hostel and has got nothing to do with anything.
04:18There is something here at Hickory Road.
04:20Something behind these two deaths that we do not see.
04:23It's the middle of the night.
04:25The hostel's locked from the inside.
04:27Mrs Nicolettis opens her door to whoever knocks.
04:30Then you believe it was one of the students?
04:32It had to be.
04:34Yes.
04:36But which one?
04:51Come on.
04:58You've heard?
05:00Yes, of course. The others, no?
05:02No. Most of them had left before she was found.
05:05Look, I can't do this anymore. I've had enough.
05:08Sally, we can't stop now.
05:10Not now, of all times.
05:12Someone's going to find out, and I'll...
05:14Don't worry. Nobody knows.
05:17What about this detective, Poirot?
05:20Don't worry about Poirot.
05:22I'll deal with him.
05:24You'd better.
05:26I promise.
05:30I will.
05:38I never thought that it would come to this.
05:41First Celia, and then...
05:45It's like a world gone mad, Mr Poirot.
05:48Come on, Florence. Mr Poirot will sort it out. You'll see.
05:52What can you tell us about your employer, Mrs Hubbard?
05:55Not a great deal. She was a very solitary person.
05:58I'd rather think...
06:00Well, I know it's a wicked thing to say,
06:02but I think she may have been a secret drinker.
06:05After all the bottles we found in her room, there's no secret about it.
06:09And you told me, I think, that she had other interests.
06:12Yes, one or two student clubs and a shop just across the road.
06:16Which shop is that?
06:18It sells luggage. A lot of our students buy rucksacks there.
06:23Rucksacks?
06:25Oh, yes, of course. The rucksack belonging to Monsieur Leonard Bateson.
06:28The one that was cut up?
06:30Yes.
06:33On the day that the police came to Hickory Road.
06:38Sir.
06:41Excuse me.
06:47Two of the students have come back. They'd like to see you.
06:54I feel like a rat coming to you.
06:56We all agreed.
07:01Well, it's like this.
07:03About six weeks ago, we were talking about crime and murder.
07:06Who were?
07:08I'm sorry. We all were. Len, Pat, Celia, me, the whole hostel.
07:12Colin had come up with this theory about how anyone could get away with murder.
07:16And now this has happened.
07:18Yes, he spoke also of this to me at the dinner. You remember?
07:22Yes. Well, we were ragging him about it,
07:24and then somebody asked him how he would go about killing someone.
07:27Colin said poison.
07:29Poison?
07:31Yes. I said it would be impossible to get hold of a lethal poison,
07:34but Colin disagreed. And that was when we made the bet.
07:37What bet?
07:39Colin said he could produce enough poison to kill someone,
07:42and he could do it in a week.
07:44You mean he stole some poison?
07:46It was morphine tartrate. He produced it a week later.
07:49None of us believed him at first. It was just white powder.
07:52I had a look at it. It was what he said it was.
07:54And this poison, what happened to it after the bet? It was run.
07:58Colin kept it for a few days, but we were all so nervous about it,
08:01in the end he flushed it down the toilet.
08:03Did you actually see him do this? Yes.
08:05He did it in front of us.
08:07Now, let me get this straight.
08:09Colin McNabb stole a file of morphine tartrate just to prove a point?
08:13Yes.
08:15I'm sure it's not as bad as it seems.
08:18Personally, I don't see how it could be worse.
08:22I was just proving a point, that's all.
08:25Tell me, Monsieur Colin, the poison, from where had it come?
08:28Isn't that obvious?
08:30From the pharmacy at the hospital.
08:32Did you tell her Austin gave it to you?
08:34No. I took it myself.
08:37It was easy.
08:39I'd been to the hospital, and I'd seen how busy it was,
08:42and I knew I just had to wait for the right moment.
08:47All it took was a white coat and a stethoscope.
08:50That's human psychology for you.
08:53To anyone who looked, I was just another doctor passing through.
08:58And the stethoscope, from where had that come?
09:01I pinched it, if you must know.
09:03It was Len Bateson's.
09:05So that also was not the work of Mademoiselle Celia Austin?
09:08No, as she told you.
09:10What happened to the stethoscope?
09:12I left it in the hospital.
09:14I will get my new one eventually.
09:16What's all the fuss about?
09:18I didn't do anything wrong.
09:20It was theft, at the very least.
09:22I mean, I threw the poison out.
09:25Ask Nigel or Len. They were both there.
09:28But you kept it, did you not, for at least one week?
09:31Yes.
09:32And everyone in the hostel knew that it was in your possession?
09:35Yes, but...
09:37Oh, wait a minute.
09:39You think somebody might have taken it and swapped it with something else?
09:42Oui, with a baracic powder, which was harmless.
09:45That was one of the items that was also stolen.
09:49And I threw away baracic powder?
09:51Who had access to your room, Mr MacMillan?
09:53Anyone. I don't keep it locked.
09:57Look, I was just proving a point, Chief Inspector.
10:00I didn't mean any harm.
10:06You return now to Hickory Road, Chief Inspector?
10:09I'm going to search that hostel from top to bottom.
10:11Maybe I should have done it from the start.
10:13What is it that you expect to find, Chief Inspector?
10:15The remains of the poison.
10:17It only took a small amount to kill Celia Austin.
10:20I'll wait till the killer's hung on to the rest.
10:29That interview with Mr Colin McNabb, it explains at last
10:32why the baracic powder and the stethoscope, they were both stolen.
10:36Yes?
10:37And all that remains is the rucksack belonging to Mr Leonard Bateson.
10:40What, and you think that's more important than the poison that killed Celia Austin?
10:44No, but I believe it was the reason why she was killed.
10:48Hickory Road.
10:52Taxi!
10:57Hickory Road.
11:24If you please to wait for me.
11:25Of course.
11:37Good morning, sir.
11:38Bonjour.
11:39If you please, I would like to purchase a rucksack.
11:42A rucksack, sir?
11:43Oui.
11:44Would it be for yourself?
11:45No, no, no, no, no, no.
11:48It is for my nephew.
11:52This is the deluxe model.
11:54The Imperial, sir.
11:56It's very sturdy, but light.
11:58C'est vrai.
11:59And this model of rucksack, it is your most popular?
12:03No, sir.
12:05Our most popular model would have to be this one.
12:09It's good and stout, and it'll stand a lot of wear,
12:11and it's half the price of the Imperial.
12:13Oui, bien.
12:14This is the one I will choose.
12:16I'll just get my assistant to wrap it for you.
12:18Mr. Casterman.
12:36You can't do this.
12:38You can't do this.
12:40If you'd told me about that stolen poison earlier,
12:42Miss Hobhouse, I wouldn't have had to.
12:45I do have rights, Chief Inspector.
12:47So did Celia Austin.
12:49And Mrs. Nicolettis, for that matter.
12:51Perhaps you should think of them.
13:01Val!
13:02What's going on?
13:03It's the police.
13:04They're searching the whole place.
13:06They can?
13:07They've just finished in my room.
13:08Now they're in yours.
13:19Chief Inspector!
13:21Ah, Mr. McNabb.
13:22Just the man I wanted to see.
13:24What? Why?
13:26That poison of yours, the morphine tartrate,
13:28you said you threw it away.
13:30I did.
13:32Then how do you explain this?
13:34What is it?
13:37I think you know what it is, Mr. McNabb.
13:41No.
13:43No!
13:48Right, the other mansions, if you please.
14:07What's wrong?
14:17Bonjour, Chief Inspector.
14:20How did you sleep?
14:22I didn't.
14:24But with Monsieur Colin McNabb ready for the crimes,
14:27you should have slept to perfection.
14:33Actually, Poirot, it's essential eating.
14:36But it was on to the full extent, mon ami.
14:38Exactly.
14:43You have seen the headlines?
14:45Oh, the Jarrow marches, yeah.
14:48He says that Sartre Stanley is too ill to meet with them.
14:55You told to me once that you met Sartre Stanley.
15:00Yes.
15:02It was on a matter for the police?
15:06Yes.
15:11Sir Arthur Stanley may be the people's hero,
15:14the champion of the jobless.
15:17But 10 years ago, he murdered his wife.
15:22Comment?
15:23Yes.
15:24And it was rather similar to this Celia Austin business.
15:27I'll tell you how it happened.
15:33Sir Arthur Stanley was already famous.
15:35He'd just become an MP.
15:37Anyway, his wife was found dead from an overdose of her sleeping powder.
15:40And although I was only an inspector then,
15:42I was called in to investigate.
15:44They had a big place over in Richmond.
15:47And the two of them had lived there with their son and a couple of mates.
15:51There could have been an accident.
15:53That's what everyone thought.
15:55But there was something about Sir Arthur that, I don't know,
15:58got my wind up.
16:02Who was in the house with your wife last night, Sir Arthur?
16:05Oh, look, I've already answered all these questions.
16:10Police, sir.
16:15Just myself, the maid, myself.
16:19Just myself, the maid, my son.
16:23I will have to speak to them, sir.
16:27Well, the maid's here, but I've sent my son away.
16:31He's only 16, for heaven's sake.
16:33He's upset.
16:35We're all upset.
16:41And who actually gave your wife her sleeping powder, Sir Arthur?
16:45Gave your wife her sleeping powder, Sir Arthur?
16:50No-one gave it her. She took it herself.
16:56She measured the dose?
17:01No, I did.
17:04But it was the correct dose, I'm sure of it.
17:09Then how do you explain what happened, sir?
17:15Well, it's simple. She...
17:18She took the first dose, but she took it too early.
17:23Then she forgot she'd taken it and she took another one.
17:28So...
17:30It was an accident.
17:33I've never heard such a feeble story in all my life.
17:37He was hiding something, that was for sure.
17:40But I wasn't going to be given the chance to find out what.
17:43Just what do you think you're doing, chap?
17:46This is Sir Arthur Stanley we're talking about.
17:50You don't investigate a man like that unless you've got a damn good reason,
17:54and as far as I can see, you haven't got any reason at all.
17:57Sir Arthur Stanley had some pretty powerful friends
18:00high up in the Labour Party and in the police.
18:03I was pulled off the case.
18:05It was an accident and that was to be the end of it.
18:08But I knew I was right.
18:10So I went back to the house one last time.
18:13I still don't know what I expected to find,
18:15but I'll tell you this, Poirot.
18:17I struck gold.
18:21He was talking with his solicitor,
18:24a man called Endicott.
18:26I had to do it.
18:29I had no choice.
18:32Yes, sir.
18:33But can you live with it?
18:36God help me, I don't know.
18:40I don't know!
18:44Endicott, promise me you'll never tell.
18:50I saw it with my own eyes,
18:53the two of them in it together.
18:56And it was this Monsieur Endicott
18:58that you saw at the hospital yesterday?
19:00Yes.
19:01That's one face I'll never forget.
19:04What do you think was in the letter that passed between them?
19:07I don't know.
19:08Some means of protecting himself, maybe.
19:12As sure as Eggsy's egg, Sir Arthur killed his wife.
19:15But what would have been the motive for Sir Arthur's death?
19:18I don't know.
19:19I don't know.
19:20I don't know.
19:21I don't know.
19:22Sir Arthur killed his wife.
19:24But what would have been the motive for Sir Arthur to have committed this murder?
19:27Money.
19:28Lady Stanley was a rich woman in her own right.
19:30And he got everything.
19:32Endicott knew that, of course.
19:34And what did you do?
19:36There was nothing I could do.
19:37I wasn't meant to be there.
19:39I couldn't prove what I'd seen and heard.
19:41I was off the case.
19:45You realise I could get the push for this?
19:47Len, it's important to me.
19:49Yes, I know, I know.
19:50You and Sir Arthur Stanley.
19:51Anyone would think you were related or something.
19:53I've read everything he's ever written.
19:55His whole life's work.
19:57I have to meet him.
19:58Just once.
20:01I can give you five minutes, Pat.
20:03That's all.
20:08Thanks, Len.
20:13He's going to die, isn't he?
20:14He's very sick.
20:20Come on.
20:36Maria.
20:37Please, sir.
20:39Don't be afraid.
20:41I suppose I'm an admirer of yours, Sir Arthur.
20:45I just wanted to see how you were.
20:51You've done so much for this country.
20:54With the Labour movement.
20:57Your stand against Mussolini.
20:59Your support of the Jarrow marches.
21:05Baldwin won't see them, you know.
21:07Won't see them.
21:10He's too scared.
21:12They don't need Baldwin.
21:14They need you.
21:16You're their hero.
21:18You.
21:20You're their voice.
21:22No.
21:24Not now.
21:27You'll get better, sir.
21:29You're needed.
21:33I was.
21:36Yes.
21:39Great days.
21:48Remind me now.
21:51Home.
21:54Just...
22:18Home.
22:37Mr Poirot?
22:44Mr Poirot!
22:46Pardon, Miss Lemon.
22:47Good afternoon.
22:51Are you all right, Mr Poirot?
22:53Yes, thank you, Miss Lemon.
22:56I am just discovering
22:58that to cut up a rucksack
23:01requires much of the strength.
23:07Voila.
23:09What is it?
23:11The stitchwork, Miss Lemon.
23:13You've cut right through it.
23:16I am.
23:18Between the base and the inner lining,
23:20what is it that you see?
23:22I don't see anything at all.
23:26Precisement.
23:28That is exactly the point.
23:30Merci.
23:32I thought I might make dinner for you
23:34in the chief inspector this evening, Mr Poirot.
23:37Merci beaucoup.
23:39The chief inspector, he has an appetite
23:41that is most healthy, n'est-ce pas?
23:43That's what I thought, Mr Poirot.
23:45Merci.
23:46I'll fast settle as usual.
23:48I shall return within the hour.
24:03Mr Poirot,
24:05Mr Poirot.
24:07Oui?
24:08Get in.
24:09Comment?
24:11What are you doing?
24:12What are you doing?
24:14What is this?
24:34Come in, Mr Poirot.
24:42Hi, Mr Poirot.
24:45Sit down.
24:53My name is John Casterman.
24:57Sorry for the way you were brought in.
25:00By assaulting me in the open street?
25:02You were about to ruin six months'
25:05undercover investigation.
25:09Besides putting the life of one of my agents at risk.
25:14Mademoiselle Sally.
25:17Yes.
25:18There was no danger of that, monsieur.
25:20I was well aware that Mademoiselle Sally
25:22was not what she claimed to be.
25:25How?
25:27You should have studied perhaps more your kids.
25:30Kids?
25:32Tell me, monsieur Casterman,
25:33this work of yours,
25:34it involves investigating the smuggling, n'est-ce pas?
25:37Ah, yes.
25:38Diamonds.
25:40From Amsterdam and Paris.
25:42We know who's buying them.
25:44But we don't know who's bringing them in.
25:45And that's our first priority.
25:47And it was for this reason that you were working
25:49in the shop with the rucksacks in Hickory Road?
25:52Yes.
25:53To keep an eye on the students intending to travel.
25:57We think it's the students who are bringing them in.
26:00The trouble is we don't know who they are.
26:04I would suggest that that is something
26:05of which they themselves are not aware.
26:08I don't understand.
26:13There is something strange about the rucksacks
26:15that come to Hickory Road.
26:16One, they are too cheap.
26:18Also, I myself cut to pieces one of these rucksacks
26:21and I will tell you exactly what I found.
26:24What?
26:25There is hidden beneath the lining
26:27a compartment which is secret
26:29into which any amount of diamonds may be placed
26:31without the owner having any knowledge of the fact.
26:34You mean the diamonds are smuggled by people
26:36who have no idea they're doing it?
26:38C'est ça.
26:40Leonard Bateson had one of the same rucksacks, Mr. Poirot.
26:42It was stolen and cut up.
26:44Oui.
26:45And I believe that it was this one event
26:47that led to both of the catastrophes which followed.
26:50The deaths of Celia Austin and Mrs. Nicoletas.
26:53Oui.
26:55Mr. Poirot, there is something you should know
26:58about Mrs. Nicoletas.
27:00Ah, you suspect that she was the leader
27:02of the smuggling ring?
27:04We don't suspect, we know.
27:07It was her cousin,
27:08Georges Nicoletas, who was buying the stuff.
27:12C'est parfait.
27:13Madame Nicoletas, she owns a shop with the rucksacks
27:16and with the clubs and the hostel for the students,
27:18she would have had access to many of the young people.
27:21But why did she have to die?
27:22Parce que, évidemment,
27:23she knew the identity of the killer of Mlle. Celia Austin.
27:26And to murder, it was not in her plans.
27:29And she panicked and threatened to tell the police?
27:35But who was it?
27:37Which one of them is the killer?
27:39The killer?
27:42The killer
27:45was the person who felt compelled to steal the light bulbs.
27:53Typical customs in excise.
27:55They always have to do everything cloak and dagger.
27:58But Monsieur Colin McNabb, he is still under arrest.
28:01Well, he stole the poison and kept it.
28:03And he had this bee in his bonnet about the motiveless murder.
28:07So you believe that Monsieur Colin McNabb,
28:08he murdered Mlle. Celia Austin by way of the experiment?
28:12Well, these psychologists,
28:13most of them are balmy themselves.
28:20Your health, Chief Inspector.
28:23I don't suppose you've got a nice glass of beer, have you, Poirot?
28:26No, no, no.
28:27Besides, the syrup of the banana,
28:29it is better for the appetite.
28:32Santé.
28:34Cheers.
28:40Are you hungry, Chief Inspector?
28:43You can say that again, Miss Lemon.
28:45I've been looking forward to a healthy meal all day.
28:48And I've taken you at your word.
28:53What's this?
28:55Fillet of sole poached in milk with boiled vegetables.
29:00You can't get much healthier than that.
29:04Sole, Miss Lemon?
29:07Lemon sole.
29:14Who can that be at this time of night?
29:17If you please, Miss Lemon.
29:19You know, it's very kind of you to put me up like this, Poirot.
29:22But I was thinking...
29:23Not at all, Chief Inspector.
29:25The pleasure, it is mine.
29:27And I insist that you stay here with me
29:30until the good Madame Jappe, she has returned.
29:34Oh, right.
29:39Mr. Poirot,
29:41I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave you.
29:44I'm sorry.
29:46Mr. Poirot,
29:48Chief Inspector.
29:49Monsieur Nigel.
29:50Forgive me for calling so late, but I had to see you.
29:52Not at all.
29:55Miss Lemon.
30:00Please do sit, Monsieur Nigel.
30:12Mr. Poirot,
30:13you've arrested the wrong man.
30:15Ah.
30:16It was not I who arrested Monsieur Colin McNabb.
30:19What makes you say that, Mr. Chapman?
30:20It's not me.
30:21I've just been talking to Pat,
30:23Patricia Lane,
30:24and she knows who put the poison back into Colin's room.
30:27She's saying he's been framed?
30:28Yes, and she knows who by.
30:30Well, who?
30:32She wouldn't tell me.
30:33She says I'd never believe her.
30:35Why didn't she come here herself?
30:37She's frightened.
30:38Very frightened.
30:40She didn't want me to come, but I said that...
30:42Miss Lemon.
30:43What now?
30:49I told Pat she had to tell you what she knew,
30:51if only for Colin's sake.
30:52But she still wouldn't budge, so I came myself.
30:55It's Patricia Lane.
30:56For you.
31:00Maybe she's changed her mind.
31:04Hello, Pat.
31:05Why are you doing this, Nigel?
31:07I told you I'd come here, Pat.
31:08If there's something you know, you've got to tell him.
31:09Don't you see?
31:10You could be in danger yourself.
31:12The Chief Inspector's here.
31:13Why don't you talk to him, Pat?
31:16All right.
31:18Chief Inspector.
31:26Miss Lane?
31:28Is that Chief Inspector Jap?
31:30Yes, this is Jap.
31:31Chief Inspector,
31:32I know who killed Celia.
31:34You see, I saw it.
31:35With the poison.
31:37And who was that, Miss Lane?
31:38I was going past Colin's room.
31:41It's impossible, Chief Inspector.
31:43Just tell me what you saw, Miss Lane.
31:47Miss Lane?
32:05Chief Inspector.
32:10Chief Inspector.
32:21Why didn't she come with me?
32:24I told her it wasn't safe staying here if she knew something.
32:29This is my fault.
32:31I should have persuaded her.
32:32There's no point blaming yourself, Mr. Chapman.
32:40She wouldn't tell Nigel Chapman what she knew.
32:42But maybe she'd tell somebody else.
32:44Sir.
32:49The murder weapon?
32:50Yes.
32:52A paperweight in a sock.
32:55Simple, but effective.
32:57Yes, indeed.
33:03There is only some blood.
33:06That's Sir Arthur Stanley.
33:08With his wife and with his son.
33:10Yes, but what's it doing here?
33:15There is something else.
33:21There is only some blood.
33:24There is only some blood.
33:26There is only some blood.
33:28There is only some blood.
33:30There is only some blood.
33:32It was trapped in a fingernail.
33:36A hair.
33:41A red hair.
33:45Leonard Bateson.
33:48Yes, I was here.
33:50No, I didn't hear anything.
33:52Who else was in the hostel, Mr. Bateson?
33:54I don't know.
33:57Marl Hubbard was upstairs, I think, and Valerie was somewhere around.
34:00Tell me, Mr. Leonard.
34:01When was the last time you saw Mademoiselle Patricia?
34:04Funnily enough, it was this morning.
34:06She was at the hospital.
34:08Do you know why?
34:11Yes, she was trying to see Sir Arthur Stanley.
34:13Stanley?
34:15Were you able to assist her?
34:19Yes.
34:21I sneaked her in for five minutes.
34:25She'd always admired him.
34:29She just wanted to see him, that's all.
34:32She was better.
34:35Without a doubt, it was from Sir Arthur Stanley that came the photograph.
34:38Wait a minute, Poirot.
34:40You're not saying that all this has got something to do with Stanley, are you?
34:43But it was you who said the same thing.
34:45The death of Lady Stanley, the murder of Mademoiselle Celia Rothstein,
34:48there were the similarities, no?
34:50Don't tell me that.
34:51Is he on your list of suspects?
34:53Sir Arthur Stanley?
34:55He can't be.
34:57Oh, of course.
35:01There's no way he would have heard.
35:04Sir Arthur Stanley...
35:07He passed away this afternoon.
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37:20Barely a wink, Poirot, if you want the truth.
37:23Until I cooled myself down in that contraption of yours.
37:27The bidet?
37:29Mind if I join you?
37:30I'm starving.
37:31No, no.
37:33You hunger, I think, for the truth, Chief Inspector.
37:36But concern yourself not.
37:37The little grey cells, they also did not sleep.
37:40The case, it is solved.
37:42Is it?
37:43Oui.
37:44You must release at once Monsieur Colin McNabb.
37:47He's the only one who couldn't have killed Patricia Lane.
37:49He was in prison.
37:50Well, what about Nigel Chapman?
37:51He was with us.
37:53You will forgive me, Chief Inspector,
37:55but your tie, it has on it the spot of grease.
37:59Well, it's the only one I've got.
38:03I could lend you one of Mr Poirot's.
38:06No, no, I can manage.
38:09I haven't got any bacon and eggs, have you, Poirot?
38:12No.
38:13At this hour of the morning?
38:14No.
38:15There is no time for the egg and the bacon.
38:18It is time now to close in on the truth.
38:20It is time now to close in the net.
38:51There is no mystery
38:53as to who was stealing most of the objects
38:55from number 26 Hickory Road,
38:58or why.
39:00Mademoiselle Celia Austin confessed herself to me
39:02in the presence of Monsieur Colin McNabb.
39:05She pretended to be the kleptomaniac,
39:08but in fact it was only to attract the attention
39:10of Monsieur Colin McNabb
39:11that she embarked on this exercise.
39:14I still think that's nonsense.
39:16It's true.
39:17I still think that's nonsense.
39:18It's true.
39:20C would never have thought up an idea like that on her own.
39:22No.
39:23And I believe that the idea was suggested to her.
39:25Suggested to her?
39:27Who by?
39:28By the very same person
39:29who arranged for the safe return of the diamond ring
39:32belonging to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane.
39:35But the ring turned up in Val's soup.
39:37Anyone could have put it there.
39:38No, no, no, no.
39:40For I will tell you what I observed
39:41when I came here to the dinner.
39:44Madame Hubbard prepared and brought to the table
39:46the soup.
39:48And I saw then
39:49that for the diamond ring to be found
39:50in the soup of Mademoiselle Valerie,
39:52only two people could possibly have placed it there.
39:55Madame Hubbard
39:57or Mademoiselle Valerie herself.
39:59And if it was me?
40:02Then you must have received the diamond ring
40:04from Mademoiselle Celia.
40:06You're right.
40:07What?
40:08Oh, Colin.
40:09Celia was mooning after you like a little ghost.
40:12But you never even looked at her.
40:14So I said to her,
40:16become a case.
40:18Something he can study.
40:20Then maybe you'll have more luck.
40:22Certainly worked.
40:24Oui.
40:25But was it not the idea
40:26to steal items only of their little worth?
40:28Yes.
40:29But then she went and pinched that ring from Pat's room.
40:32I could see at once how much it was worth
40:34and thought the police might be called in.
40:39And so Mademoiselle Celia gave you the ring
40:41to return to Mademoiselle Patricia Lane?
40:43That's right.
40:44That business about the soup was my idea.
40:48This is all very well, Mr. Poirot,
40:50but is this going to tell us who killed Cee
40:52and Mrs. Naik and Pat?
40:54Have patience, Monsieur Chapman.
40:55Je vous en prie.
40:57When she came to visit me,
40:59Mademoiselle Celia Austin claimed responsibility
41:01for only some of the thefts
41:03from number 26 Hickory Road.
41:05S'il vous plaît, Miss Lemon.
41:08She admitted taking the shoe,
41:11the bracelet,
41:13the silk scarf,
41:15the cigarette lighter,
41:17the cookery book,
41:19and the ring.
41:21And we can also eliminate the stethoscope,
41:24which was removed by Monsieur Cullen.
41:29What?
41:31Len, I can explain.
41:33I was going to pay you back.
41:35He used it most ingeniously
41:37when he took from the pharmacy also the poison.
41:39That just leaves three.
41:42Oui.
41:44The last three.
41:47And at this point, I would like to introduce you
41:49to Monsieur Castamon,
41:51who, for many months,
41:53has been investigating this hostel.
41:56Investigating us?
41:58But why?
41:59I've been in charge of an investigation
42:01into a smuggling ring, ma'am.
42:03And I had a strong belief
42:05that the late Mrs. Nicolettis was a part of it.
42:07Mrs. Nick?
42:10You must be making a mistake.
42:13I don't think so.
42:20It's true, ma'am.
42:21Sally?
42:23I work for Mr. Castamon.
42:26Sally?
42:28I'm sorry.
42:32Mademoiselle Sally was seen leaving the hostel
42:35Mademoiselle Sally was seen leaving the hostel
42:37by the fire escape,
42:38and she used this means to report on the smuggling
42:40to Monsieur Castamon.
42:41What was being smuggled?
42:43Diamonds.
42:46The smuggling operation
42:47involved the use of a certain type of rucksack.
42:50And this rucksack had in it a compartment that was secret
42:53and was unknown even to the person who might be wearing it.
42:57And it was this rucksack
42:59which set off the events which led to the death
43:02of Mademoiselle Celia Austin.
43:06For on this day,
43:08a new assignment of diamonds had arrived from Amsterdam
43:11in a rucksack belonging to Monsieur Leonard Bateson.
43:15Perhaps the policemen he is coming to Hickory Road to investigate
43:18using the death in Soho as an excuse to make a visit.
43:24The diamonds,
43:25they are quickly retrieved
43:28and the rucksack disposed of.
43:33But our smuggler had also a fear.
43:37It is essential not to be seen.
43:40So instead,
43:41simplicity.
43:46Light bulbs are removed from certain points in the hostel.
43:50Oh.
43:51Good evening, officer.
43:52And so our smuggler is passed by unnoticed by the policemen.
43:56I was waiting for you.
43:57I had to come this way.
44:03But for all this care,
44:05our perpetrator had been seen.
44:11Mademoiselle Celia Austin had a room which overlooked the boiler room
44:14in which the rucksack was found.
44:16She had seen everything.
44:21And I assume that she believed that the person she saw
44:24was also responsible for the other thefts.
44:27That's right.
44:28The night she died, she told us.
44:30She said she was sure they'd come forward.
44:33And so you see, mesdames et messieurs,
44:35that mademoiselle Celia Austin was killed
44:38because she had to be silenced.
44:42And the easiest way to ensure that silence
44:44was for the killer to take advantage of the morphine
44:47that had been stolen from the hospital by monsieur Colin McNabb.
44:56It was a simple task.
44:59It was a simple task for the killer to enter her room
45:02and to exchange her sleeping draught for a dose of morphine
45:05that would be fatal.
45:09God, it's all my fault.
45:11I should never have taken it.
45:13No, but you threw it away. We all saw it.
45:15No.
45:17It was the harmless boracic powder which was thrown away.
45:20For the morphine,
45:22that had already been taken away from monsieur Colin McNabb
45:25by someone who believed they might have reason to use it one day.
45:28But you found the poison in Colin's room.
45:30Ah, yes, but that was after the death of mademoiselle Celia Austin.
45:33You see, the poison was returned to his room
45:36in an attempt to incriminate him.
45:38I'm sorry, monsieur Poirot, but I can't bear this any longer.
45:42Who is the killer?
45:48We have here two crimes.
45:50The smuggling and the murder.
45:54And it is with the smuggling we must begin.
45:58When I purchased the rucksack from the shop owned by madame Nicolettis,
46:03I found in it a secret compartment
46:06which was used to conceal the diamonds.
46:10What is it?
46:15The stitchwork, miss Lemon.
46:17You've cut right through it.
46:19The stitchwork, it was very distinctive.
46:21And it was the good miss Lemon
46:23who had previously drawn it to my attention.
46:26What unusual stitchwork.
46:29I saw at once
46:31that the stitchwork on the rucksack was the work of the same hand.
46:37Your hand, mademoiselle Valerie.
46:42Your work in the fashion house
46:44allows you to travel abroad most frequently, n'est-ce pas?
46:47You also display the certain knowledge of diamonds which I found most revealing.
46:51For example, you knew at once
46:53the value of the diamond ring belonging to mademoiselle Patricia Lange.
46:56No, it's all wrong. You've got it all wrong.
46:58Why don't you leave her alone?
47:00I didn't kill anyone.
47:01No. Not on your own. No.
47:04And I do not believe that you have the nature to kill.
47:07But you were not acting alone, were you, mademoiselle?
47:09She had an accomplice?
47:10Oh, yes, chief inspector.
47:12Madame Nicolettis, she was head of the smuggling ring,
47:14as was suspected by monsieur Castamon,
47:16but she had more than one young person engaged in the business.
47:19So who else was there?
47:21There was a little clue left for us, chief inspector, with the third killing.
47:24The hair that was trapped in the fingernail of the dead girl.
47:26What was the colour of that hair?
47:28It was red.
47:35I think it was me.
47:41I never went near her.
47:44It is of no matter.
47:46Your mademoiselle Patricia Lange, she was struck down from behind,
47:49so it would not have been possible physically for her
47:52to even reach the hair of her attacker.
47:54So, what are you saying?
47:57I have said it to you once before, monsieur Colin,
48:00that it is always a little mistake that the criminal ignores
48:03that opens the door to the psychology and so to the crime,
48:06and so it is here.
48:08The hair that was found in the hand of the dead girl.
48:12That was an act of a killer who is too clever, too daring.
48:17And this killer has spent most of his life hiding a secret
48:21he will do anything to conceal.
48:23And this secret drives him to acts even more daring, even more dangerous.
48:28But he cannot stop.
48:30No, not even at murder.
48:33Yes, but who, Poirot?
48:35Who are you talking about?
48:38I am talking about the young man in this photograph, Chief Inspector.
48:44What photograph?
48:47The photograph that I took from the body of mademoiselle Patricia Lange yesterday.
48:53And the reason why she had to die.
49:00Mademoiselle Patricia Lange was a fanatical admirer of Sir Arthur Stanley.
49:04And it was when she visited him in the hospital
49:06that she found the family album from which she removed the photograph.
49:13But why did she remove this photograph, huh?
49:16Because she saw to her amazement the son of Sir Arthur Stanley
49:22who was living at number 26 Hickory Road under a name that was assumed.
49:27What name?
49:29Who is he?
49:34Libyan, now that I have removed the bloodstain from the photograph
49:38which obscured the identity of his son
49:45it is plain for all to see
49:51for it is you.
49:54For it is you.
49:58Monsieur Chapman.
50:09Do you deny that your true name is Nigel Stanley?
50:12Come on, Mr Poirot, it's not a crime to change a name, you know.
50:15No, Monsieur Stanley, that was not your crime.
50:17Besides, you've got it all wrong, or have you forgotten?
50:19I was with you when Pat was killed.
50:21No.
50:23When you were with me, Mademoiselle Patricia Lane, she was already dead.
50:28You come to us with a story that to me is a concoction of the most obvious.
50:32You mentioned the name Patricia three times
50:35to convince us that it is her with whom you speak.
50:39Hello, Pat?
50:40Why are you doing this, Nigel?
50:42I told you I'd come here, Pat.
50:44The Chief Inspector's here. Why don't you talk to him, Pat?
50:47All right.
50:48Chief Inspector.
50:50But it is not with Mademoiselle Patricia Lane,
50:53for that poor Mademoiselle lies dead upon the floor in her room.
50:57Yes, is it, Jack?
50:59Chief Inspector, I think I know who killed Celia.
51:02But it is easy, is it not, to imitate her voice?
51:05You see, I saw them, with the poison.
51:08So who is it at the other end of the line?
51:11I was going past Collins, Rumin.
51:14It's impossible, Chief Inspector.
51:21It is your accomplice, Mademoiselle Valerie Hophouse.
51:37I never wanted any part in it.
51:40Not the killing.
51:42That was him.
51:44Shut up, you little fool.
51:46I'm sorry, Nigel, but I can't go on any more.
51:49He's got nothing on, you see.
51:51It's all just talk. He's got nothing.
51:53No.
51:58I want to tell you everything, Mr Poirot.
52:02I want to make a statement.
52:09Oh, my God!
52:19After him!
52:29Don't let him get away!
52:50All right, fan out, lads.
52:52Don't let him double-crack.
53:20Oi!
53:33All right, son. We've got nowhere to go.
53:44No!
53:49No!
53:58We gather together on this sad day
54:02to bury a man whose tragic death has foreshortened a life
54:06that promised so much to those who believed in him.
54:11But in their long quest for justice,
54:14I know Sir Arthur lives on.
54:17Will you all please rise?
54:48Ah, Monsieur Endicott.
54:50Mr Poirot.
54:52You have reflected on what I have said?
54:54Yes.
54:56And I have no objection to your having this, Chief Inspector.
55:01What is it?
55:02It is a confession, is it not?
55:05That's right.
55:06The confession of that man, Nigel Stanley,
55:09to the murder of his mother, Lady Stanley, by poison.
55:13Merci, Monsieur.
55:17He killed his mother?
55:20Don't look so shocked, Ma.
55:23But why?
55:25I stole money from her.
55:27Not once.
55:29Quite a few times.
55:31Eventually she threatened to call the police,
55:33and when she called me again,
55:35well, I had to stop her.
55:37She really was going to turn me in.
55:39And your father knew it was you?
55:42He made me write a confession.
55:44And if my name ever appeared in connection with any crime,
55:47no matter how trivial,
55:49that confession would be delivered to the police.
55:51And that was why it was so important
55:53to keep your identity unknown.
55:59I think you'd better go.
56:01Yes, sir.
56:07I'm going to go and pay your respects.
56:11It was very nice of you to bring me, Chief Inspector.
56:14But I've really no respects to pay.
56:23It is most kind of you to invite me here, Chief Inspector.
56:28After staying with you for a whole week, Poirot,
56:30the least I could do is offer you a spot of lunch,
56:33wean you away from that...
56:35Well, let you taste some proper English cooking.
56:39And the good Madame Jap, it is today that she returns?
56:42Yes, about three o'clock.
56:46There. Now that is what I call food.
56:52That's your mashed potato.
56:54This is your peas. Mushy peas, we call them.
56:57You'll love them.
56:59And this, the pièce de résistance,
57:02faggots.
57:06Faggots?
57:08Faggots.
57:10And a spot of dick for afters.
57:14Dick?
57:16Yes, it's called that because...
57:23This is tragic, Chief Inspector.
57:25No, no, it's fine.
57:27I can eat none of this wonderful food.
57:30What? Why?
57:32Because...
57:34I have an allergy of the faggot.
57:37An allergy? Oui.
57:39I do not know how you say it in English,
57:41but in Belgian it is known as...
57:45La phobie de faggot.
57:47I never heard of that.
57:49I'm so sorry, Chief Inspector, I should have warned you.
57:52Well, this is a blessed upset, I must say.
57:55Still, you can have some spot of dick.
57:58You haven't got a phobie de dick, have you?
58:01No.
58:08Some cheese?
58:10I'll have a look.
58:14Oh, just some camembert, a little brie.
58:26Nothing like a nice bit of mousetrap.
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