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00:00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:00:48Welcome, Sir George, Lady Stubbs.
00:00:57Good evening, Sir George.
00:00:58Good evening.
00:01:00I'm so thankful you're here at last.
00:01:02It was a shocking night.
00:01:03How did she get straight to bed or she'll catch a chill?
00:01:06Come along, my dear.
00:01:07Good evening, sir.
00:01:10Good evening, sir.
00:01:51Come at once, Nass House, Devon.
00:01:54We need help, urgent, Ariadne Oliver.
00:02:02Have you been here before, sir?
00:02:04No.
00:02:04Take the scenic route along the river, shall I?
00:02:07No, thank you.
00:02:18Afternoon, ladies.
00:02:20You don't mind you, sir.
00:02:22Foreigner, see.
00:02:23Can't read a map.
00:02:24No.
00:02:24Good evening.
00:02:25Good evening.
00:02:27Good evening.
00:02:40It is most kind, please.
00:02:42Grazie.
00:02:43Marge to the youth hostel.
00:02:44Oh, her is not speaks English.
00:02:46We meet the first time this morning on the platform at Exeter.
00:02:50And now we are big friends.
00:02:52We explore Devon together.
00:02:54I could show you a few beauty spots, if you like.
00:02:57Good.
00:03:06The hostel's that way.
00:03:07Don't cross to George's land, though.
00:03:09You don't like it.
00:03:10Grazie.
00:03:13Thank you, Stan.
00:03:16If you please, may we hurry?
00:03:40I'm sorry.
00:03:45Welcome to last, monsieur.
00:03:51I believe Mrs. Oliver to be down by the battery, sir, that way.
00:04:40Wait forever.
00:04:43We are not waiting for questions.
00:04:45Wow, my God.
00:04:54Oh, hello, Poirot.
00:04:56What is wrong, madame?
00:04:58Nothing's wrong.
00:04:59I just wanted to see if someone would come.
00:05:02A lively one might have to shout.
00:05:04These words are frightfully dense.
00:05:05I thought you were in danger.
00:05:07Certainly not.
00:05:08How are you, Poirot?
00:05:11Un peu énervé, chère madame.
00:05:15You telegram to me that you need help.
00:05:18And for this reason, I come by the express from London.
00:05:20Well, I do need help.
00:05:25I'm most awfully worried.
00:05:27There are some very strange people here.
00:05:30Very strange indeed.
00:05:32They're holding a fate tomorrow,
00:05:34and they thought they'd have a treasure hunt.
00:05:36And they thought, no, that's been done to death.
00:05:38So they thought they'd have a murder hunt instead.
00:05:40And they offered me a tidy sum to come and dream it up.
00:05:44Well, anything's better than writing.
00:05:46So I've been busily inventing motives and suspects and victims and so forth.
00:05:51And it costs a bob to enter,
00:05:53and all you get for that is the first clue.
00:05:55Good fun.
00:05:56Madame, Poirot here has arrived to Devon.
00:05:59Mais pourquoi?
00:05:59Because there's something amiss.
00:06:01I think someone's going to die.
00:06:05If there were to be a real murder tomorrow instead of a fake one,
00:06:08I shouldn't be in the least surprised.
00:06:15Whose idea was it, this murder hunt?
00:06:17Uh, the Warburton's, I think.
00:06:19What, the owners of the property?
00:06:20No, no.
00:06:21That's Sir George Stubbs.
00:06:23Awfully rich and awfully common.
00:06:25Bought the place a year or so ago, along with his wife,
00:06:29who's outrageously beautiful, but as dumb as a fish.
00:06:39The corpse will be in here.
00:06:42Sally Legg was going to do it,
00:06:43but now they want her to dress up in a turban and tell fortunes.
00:06:47So it's a girl guide called Marlene Tucker.
00:06:51Hideous child.
00:06:53Just has to sit here and read comics.
00:06:54I've written a clue on one of them.
00:06:56And flopped down when she hears someone coming with the,
00:06:59with this around her neck.
00:07:02Hello.
00:07:02I've brought lemonade.
00:07:03Oh, that is most kind, Miss Bruce.
00:07:06Good afternoon, sir.
00:07:07No, no, sir.
00:07:08Lady Stubbs must be rushed off her feet with all the preparations.
00:07:11Do thank her for the drinks.
00:07:12Lady Stubbs has one of her headaches.
00:07:15She's not yet up.
00:07:19I've planned every detail and it all dovetails nicely.
00:07:23But things keep changing.
00:07:26The fortune telling is a good example.
00:07:28I feel I'm being jockeyed along.
00:07:31Jockeyed along?
00:07:32Manipulated.
00:07:33So someone is making the suggestion?
00:07:36Rattus can't stand suggestions.
00:07:38If you suggest something, we'd do exactly the opposite.
00:07:40But I am being jockeyed along.
00:07:43And I can't figure out how.
00:07:46Tell the truth, I'm, I'm worried.
00:07:50Perhaps the big suggestion it is put on.
00:07:52To which you, of course, say no, because it is preposterous.
00:07:55But then, an idea most trivial may be found to have been smuggled in.
00:08:00Yes, yes.
00:08:00Something like that, yes.
00:08:02Who is making these alterations?
00:08:04Different people.
00:08:06It would be easier if it were just one, wouldn't it?
00:08:09And you have told to them that Hercule Poirot is coming?
00:08:11Yes, I said you'd be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt.
00:08:14Oh, everyone's thrilled.
00:08:16Mrs. Oliver!
00:08:17Come on, I'll walk up with you.
00:08:19All safe, sir.
00:08:22This is Michael Wayman, an architect.
00:08:26I'm meant to be designing a tennis pavilion.
00:08:29Do you know what he's asked for?
00:08:30A Chinese pagoda.
00:08:33Self-made men.
00:08:35Stinking with money, but with no taste whatsoever.
00:08:38For instance, look at this.
00:08:40It's quite nice, of its kind.
00:08:44Well, in keeping with the house.
00:08:45But these things are meant to be...
00:08:48What's the phrase?
00:08:50Situated on an eminence.
00:08:53And here's this poor little devil tucked away in the woods.
00:08:57Perhaps it wasn't anywhere else.
00:08:58What about the grassy bank by the house?
00:09:00It's perfect, but no.
00:09:01A tree comes down in a gale,
00:09:04writes as the self-made twerp, we'll put the folly there.
00:09:06Tidy up the place.
00:09:07Look, it's only on a yard of concrete, subsiding already.
00:09:11These people are extraordinary.
00:09:19That's Amy Folliard.
00:09:21Her people own Nass originally.
00:09:24Then she lost both her sons and had to sell up.
00:09:27And yet she lives here still?
00:09:30Precisely.
00:09:31Odd or what?
00:09:33Is this the great Monsieur Poirot?
00:09:36Enchanté, Madame Folliard.
00:09:37It is kind of you to help out with our prices.
00:09:41This clever lady has contrived a most intricate problem.
00:09:44I have been admiring the house.
00:09:47I thank you.
00:09:48It was built by my husband's great grandfather.
00:09:51There was an Elizabethan manor before, but it burned down.
00:09:55It must be hard for you to have strangers living in residence now.
00:10:00Well, so many things are hard, Monsieur.
00:10:04Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll see if they have your room ready.
00:10:09What do you think?
00:10:11Comment?
00:10:12It is only one instance since I have arrived.
00:10:15Well, I've been here three days, and every time someone says something,
00:10:19I get the strongest impression they're lying.
00:10:22My intuition tells me something is wrong.
00:10:24Allah.
00:10:26I'm well aware you think me irrational.
00:10:29Madame, one course thinks by different names, huh?
00:10:32It may indeed be that you have seen something.
00:10:35It may indeed be that you have heard something.
00:10:37And it may be, if I may so put it,
00:10:41that you do not know what it is that you know.
00:10:44You are aware only of the result.
00:10:45And that, Madame, it is your intuition.
00:10:49Whatever it is, I feel certain someone is going to die.
00:10:55We must do something about it.
00:11:10.
00:11:11.
00:11:11.
00:11:11.
00:11:11.
00:11:24Foro, is it?
00:11:25Me?
00:11:26Welcome.
00:11:27Welcome, old man.
00:11:28Merci, monsieur.
00:11:29George Stubbs.
00:11:31Pleasure to meet you.
00:11:31I'm delighted you could come.
00:11:34Yes.
00:11:34Let me introduce you to some people.
00:11:36The fortune-telling, over by the Magnolia,
00:11:39or at the far end of the lawn by the rhododendrons.
00:11:41What do you think?
00:11:42By the Magnolia?
00:11:43My tent car?
00:11:44Go by the Magnolia.
00:11:45It will cause a bottleneck.
00:11:46Rubbish.
00:11:47Down at the end, please, Captain.
00:11:48What about the coconut chai?
00:11:50Yes, not too near the house, Jim.
00:11:52I've just replaced the windows.
00:11:55Fair point.
00:11:56Now, may I introduce famous gent, Hercule Poirot.
00:12:01Yes, indeed, monsieur Poirot.
00:12:03Captain and Mrs. Warburton.
00:12:04Captain.
00:12:06Delighted.
00:12:06Madame.
00:12:07Yes, and now Alec and Sally Legg.
00:12:09Oh, that's you.
00:12:11Madame.
00:12:12We'll find you a job later on.
00:12:13Watch out, Poirot.
00:12:14Sally can make a man do anything.
00:12:15What?
00:12:16Yes.
00:12:18So come and meet the wife.
00:12:21Excuse me.
00:12:22Howdy.
00:12:23This is Mr. Poirot.
00:12:25It's our guest.
00:12:26Madame.
00:12:27Now, you chuck nicely.
00:12:28Why, I go and locate some coconut.
00:12:30Yes.
00:12:30Bon point.
00:12:31Right.
00:12:33Do you mind if I sit down, Madame?
00:12:35So much walking.
00:12:38Merci.
00:12:42It's pretty, isn't it?
00:12:43Très joli.
00:12:44It's an emerald.
00:12:45George gave it to me.
00:12:47He gives me lots of things.
00:12:47See.
00:12:57Devonshire is the county most pleasant,
00:12:58n'est-ce pas?
00:12:59It is when it isn't raining, but there aren't any nightclubs.
00:13:02Ah bon, you like the nightclubs?
00:13:04Oh, yes.
00:13:04I love music, and dancing, and champagne,
00:13:08and wearing my nicest clothes, and all my jewels.
00:13:13It's best to be rich, isn't it?
00:13:16Perhaps if I was not rich, I should look like her.
00:13:19Imagine.
00:13:21Tea, my lady.
00:13:23Tea is stupid.
00:13:24Perhaps our guest would like some hat here.
00:13:27Shall I be mother?
00:13:28Is he going to be like Ascot tomorrow?
00:13:30I can wear a very big hat.
00:13:31Not quite like Ascot, dear.
00:13:33There's so much to do.
00:13:36You really should be helping out,
00:13:37instead of staying in bed till after lunch.
00:13:40I've got a new dress.
00:13:41Oh, come and see.
00:13:43We're just having a cup of tea.
00:13:44Come with me.
00:13:45Come now.
00:13:45Oh, very well.
00:13:47Please excuse us.
00:13:53Beautiful creature, isn't she?
00:13:56See that ring George bought her?
00:13:59Whether he's spotted she's away with the fairies,
00:14:02couldn't say.
00:14:02But then he's hardly an intellectual himself, is he?
00:14:06Sir George is inside the stocks and shares, I believe.
00:14:09Yes.
00:14:09Not exactly a gentleman's game, what?
00:14:12But still, you are the French.
00:14:13Good grief.
00:14:14No choice.
00:14:15Not with an election coming up.
00:14:18Jim, you've got to settle this.
00:14:20We agreed my tent should be at the forum by the rhododendrons.
00:14:23It's the only place.
00:14:24My wife doesn't think so.
00:14:27You're the Member of Parliament.
00:14:28Show her who's boss.
00:14:30Are you out of your mind?
00:14:31All right.
00:14:32See what I can do.
00:14:52Good.
00:15:02I think she's commendable.
00:15:03She's a damn good egg, actually.
00:15:06Ah, Amanda, there you are.
00:15:07I want you to go and order some wild fencing straight away, please.
00:15:10I don't think you're allowed to pen people in the tea tent, sir.
00:15:13Not the tea tent, dear.
00:15:15No, no, no.
00:15:15Over there in the woods where they're coming through, they just keep wandering in.
00:15:18Who are?
00:15:19Trespassers.
00:15:21Foreigners.
00:15:22Cutting through, you see, Poirot.
00:15:23Through to the ferry.
00:15:24Girls in little short trousers.
00:15:27Oh, we the car.
00:15:28The trousers of the girls, sir.
00:15:29Exactly.
00:15:30I have a gentleman on the telephone with coconuts.
00:15:33Right, the coconuts, yeah.
00:15:34Excuse me.
00:15:35Right, sir.
00:15:37As many as you like, sir.
00:15:38Look at them all buzzing around.
00:15:42Busy, busy bees.
00:15:44The world's going to pot and they're holding a garden party.
00:15:48In fact, the gendarme.
00:15:50But that is an activity honored by time, monsieur.
00:15:53The apathy of these people.
00:15:56They're all feeble-minded.
00:15:58Do you know what I'd like to see done in this country?
00:16:01I'd like to see every feeble-minded person put out.
00:16:06Don't let them breed.
00:16:08Finish them off.
00:16:09All the simpletons.
00:16:11How would you do that, monsieur Lake?
00:16:13No, I'm a chemist.
00:16:15I could do it easily.
00:16:21Any theories?
00:16:23Everybody seems to me to be completely normal.
00:16:26Are you trying to be amusing?
00:16:27Perhaps that is not the right word.
00:16:30Lady Stubbs, it appears, is subnormal.
00:16:32Alec Legg, abnormal.
00:16:33Oh, he's all right.
00:16:34He's just having a nervous breakdown.
00:16:36But everyone seems in a state of agitation,
00:16:38which I believe is characteristic of the preparations for a fate in England.
00:16:41Mrs. Oliver, your corpse is here.
00:16:45Ah, hello, Marlene.
00:16:48Remember, a guide is honest, reliable, and can be trusted.
00:16:53Can you come and have a look at her costume?
00:16:55I was going to be stabbed.
00:16:57Now she says I'm going to be strangled.
00:17:00That's not fair.
00:17:01This gentleman knows all about murder.
00:17:03Why don't you ask him?
00:17:06Seen a lot of killings, have you?
00:17:09One or two mamas, anyway.
00:17:11Any sex maniacs?
00:17:13I like sex maniacs.
00:17:15I've read about them.
00:17:16I do not think you would like to meet one.
00:17:18If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on,
00:17:22dead-like, he's liable to be a sex maniac, isn't he?
00:17:25That would be an assumption most reasonably.
00:17:29That's what my granddad said.
00:17:30But he's daft, so no one believes him.
00:17:33Marlene, come and try your costume.
00:18:22You permit, madame.
00:18:29I'm so sorry Hattie dragged me off earlier.
00:18:32It was rude of her.
00:18:34Lady Stubbs is a little in common on the Capricious.
00:18:39Hattie is a dear good child.
00:18:44I know her very well, you see.
00:18:46Because she was once your ward.
00:18:50My husband died in Flanders.
00:18:53My eldest son was killed on active service against the Pashtun.
00:18:57And to cap a sorry tale, my youngest son took up aviation
00:19:03and crashed, trying to break the record to Nairobi.
00:19:09That meant three lots of death duties.
00:19:12Well, Ness had to be sold.
00:19:17I was very unhappy, and I was glad of the distraction
00:19:21of having the young person to look after.
00:19:25For a time we lived in Paris.
00:19:27My, we had fun.
00:19:30I became very fond of Hattie.
00:19:33All the more so when I realized that she was not terribly capable.
00:19:42Thank heaven there was no money to speak of.
00:19:45Had she been an heiress, I'd have to think how vulnerable she might have been.
00:19:49But her father died bankrupt.
00:19:52And we felt ourselves fortunate when George Stubbs came along.
00:19:58It was most fortunate indeed.
00:20:01George Stubbs is a good man.
00:20:04Oh, I know he's a complete vulgarian.
00:20:06But he is fundamentally decent.
00:20:09I think that you have made the arrangement most prudent, madame.
00:20:13I am not like the English or romantic about these matters.
00:20:16Et voici, here you are, still at Nass House.
00:20:19Sir George lets me live in the lodge.
00:20:23And I count myself very lucky.
00:20:25Indeed, you have found for yourself a haven most peaceful, madame.
00:20:29A haven from the storm.
00:20:32Yes.
00:20:35The world is a wicked place, Monsieur Poirot.
00:20:39There are very wicked people in it.
00:21:07What do you want me to put on this poster?
00:21:10Madame Zuleika or Romany Lee, Gypsy Queen?
00:21:13No one likes gypsies around here.
00:21:14Better make it Madame Zuleika.
00:21:16There's a snake around in there.
00:21:18A snake in the grass.
00:21:21I had a snake once, but it swallowed the rabbit.
00:21:24Had to chop it up.
00:21:26Quite good font.
00:21:28Do you still paint, Michael?
00:21:30Like you used to?
00:21:31Sold out, Sally.
00:21:32Thirty pieces of silver.
00:21:34Everyone has to earn a living.
00:21:36What?
00:21:36In Parliament, Jim?
00:21:37That's not really an honest living, now is it?
00:21:40What?
00:21:41Waste of time, Parliament.
00:21:42Don't be such a rotten old sulk.
00:21:44Why?
00:21:44Alec has a point.
00:21:45What do you think, Mrs Oliver?
00:21:47Should all politicians be eliminated?
00:21:49Eliminated?
00:21:50I don't know.
00:21:52They make ever such good suspects as a rule.
00:21:55They certainly do.
00:21:57I mean, just look at my husband.
00:21:58You couldn't get more shifty if you tried.
00:22:04Excuse me, I'm going to bed.
00:22:06Hattie?
00:22:06I feel strange.
00:22:09Darling, darling, we're at dinner.
00:22:12What?
00:22:22Oh, Lady Stubbs has gone early to bed?
00:22:25Malheureusement, oui.
00:22:27She suffers, perhaps, from the mental confusion.
00:22:30Oh, no.
00:22:31She knows exactly what she's doing.
00:22:37What do you think?
00:22:39I think, madame, that I take the little walk.
00:23:02Monsieur?
00:23:03Do you want the ferry, sir?
00:23:05Oh, no.
00:23:06No, merci.
00:23:07I stay at Nass.
00:23:09Oh.
00:23:10It is up at Nass, you are?
00:23:12Oui.
00:23:13I work for the Folliats many a year.
00:23:16None of them left now, of course, except old mum up at the lodge.
00:23:19Met her, have we?
00:23:20Madame Folliats?
00:23:21Oui.
00:23:22Bad luck hers had.
00:23:24Trouble with her husband.
00:23:26Trouble with her sons.
00:23:28They were all right when they was boys.
00:23:30Always down here crabbing.
00:23:31But when they grows up, phew.
00:23:35Master Henry, he died for his country.
00:23:36Fair dues, but Master James.
00:23:39He was wild.
00:23:42One of they as couldn't go straight.
00:23:44But he was vexing, Master James.
00:23:47Aeroplanes.
00:23:48Flying.
00:23:50That's no way to die.
00:23:51No.
00:23:52No, indeed.
00:23:55Hello.
00:23:56What is your opinion of Sir George?
00:23:57Oh, pardon.
00:23:58Monsieur...
00:23:59John Merdle.
00:24:01Monsieur Merdle.
00:24:04Oh, no.
00:24:04No.
00:24:05Merci.
00:24:06Gentlemen be powerful rich.
00:24:07Wife's a fine lady from London.
00:24:10There.
00:24:11I remember the night they arrived.
00:24:13Worst gale we ever had.
00:24:15Big tree down in the woods made a rare mess.
00:24:18Where the folly it now stands.
00:24:20Ah.
00:24:21Damn silly place for it, too.
00:24:23Never happening Squires Day in London nonsense.
00:24:27It is sad, is it not, that the time for the Folliats family it is finished?
00:24:31Always be Folliats at Nass.
00:24:33Monsieur?
00:24:35Old Mum shall be here by shape.
00:24:38Good night, sir.
00:24:39Good night, sir.
00:25:05That.
00:25:07Well thank you for the fall.
00:25:16Ah, thank you..
00:25:25Now..
00:25:26Here are some new ideas for the pagoda.
00:25:29What do you think?
00:25:31See?
00:25:41Oh, no.
00:25:43What is it, darling?
00:25:44It's from my cousin Etienne. He's coming here.
00:25:47He's coming in his yacht.
00:25:49Oh.
00:25:50No.
00:25:51Oh, my, I see.
00:25:58Who is this Etienne D'Souza?
00:26:00Distant cousin.
00:26:01He says he's coming here today.
00:26:03Well, it's a pity he's dropping by in the afternoon of the fay,
00:26:05but never mind.
00:26:06We shall make him welcome.
00:26:07No, we can't.
00:26:08We can.
00:26:09I need to lie down.
00:26:10I have a headache.
00:26:11Hattie, dear.
00:26:12Take some aspirin and then it will go away.
00:26:15Shall I bring you some?
00:26:16No.
00:26:17Sweetheart.
00:26:17Excuse me.
00:26:19Oh, Hattie, darling.
00:26:20I don't want to see Etienne.
00:26:21I don't like him.
00:26:22He's wicked.
00:26:23He does bad things.
00:26:30No, Rogers.
00:26:31Put the urn on the left.
00:26:33Hello, ma'am.
00:26:34The left.
00:26:35Oh, the left.
00:26:37Oh.
00:26:38Hello, Poirot.
00:26:41Bonjour, madame.
00:26:42What a beautiful day.
00:26:44Yes.
00:26:45And isn't it nice to have Lass lived in again?
00:26:48We were all so afraid it would become an hotel.
00:26:51So many houses have AA three stars and what have you.
00:26:56Ghastly.
00:26:58I must say, George Stubbs has done wonders for the place.
00:27:03He's got good blood in him somewhere.
00:27:06Father a gent and mother a barmaid.
00:27:08That's my guess.
00:27:12I see she got her way with the fortune teller's tent.
00:27:25No, no, no, no.
00:27:27No, you're trespassing.
00:27:28You can't come through here.
00:27:31Do you understand?
00:27:31The youth hostel is that way.
00:27:34This is private land.
00:27:36Hop it.
00:27:38This won't do.
00:27:42Uh, Poirot.
00:27:44Might I meet you in the study?
00:27:48Yes.
00:27:48What's that, Hattie?
00:27:49Yes, I'll shut it.
00:27:56Well, I put a padlock on the gate but they come through the wood.
00:27:59They don't seem to understand the world I'm talking about.
00:28:01They just jabber on in Dutch or French or whatever.
00:28:05One of them was, I think, Italian.
00:28:06Well, precisely, yes.
00:28:08Foreign.
00:28:09Uh, Poirot.
00:28:14Do you answer me a question with the benefit of all your experience?
00:28:17Most certainly, monsieur.
00:28:18I will try.
00:28:22Is Michael Wayman after my wife?
00:28:28Monsieur?
00:28:29Oh, she's behaving damn oddly.
00:28:32All these headaches and this constant lying down.
00:28:35And every time I look at her, there's Michael, bloody Wayman, hovering nearby.
00:28:40Oh, I...
00:28:42I'm sorry, I'm just being...
00:28:45...pathetic, but, um...
00:28:50If you should...
00:28:51...see her getting up to anything, I mean...
00:28:54...anything at all...
00:28:58...you will let me know.
00:29:15You look ridiculous.
00:29:20Hurry up!
00:29:21Everybody this way.
00:29:22Come along.
00:29:24Gather round, please.
00:29:27Now I declare the garden fate open.
00:29:30Bravo!
00:29:33Mother, let us separate.
00:29:36We shall watch with the peel down.
00:29:40We shall see.
00:29:43Take me a ride!
00:29:44What an incredible!
00:29:46Hold up with us.
00:29:48Mr. and Mrs. Hopper.
00:29:50I guess it's just like old times.
00:29:53Isn't it the greatest success?
00:29:55I've restocked with flora bundles.
00:29:57Just one small bomb would do it.
00:30:08Yes, sir.
00:30:09You look lucky.
00:30:10It's for charity, sir.
00:30:11Children's Fats in Reef.
00:30:13Form up, please.
00:30:14Hold the virus.
00:30:16You've won.
00:30:17Well done.
00:30:18Congratulations, sir.
00:30:21Here's the first clue.
00:30:23It's a photograph.
00:30:25Work out what it is and you'll get the second clue.
00:30:28Good luck.
00:30:34I see you're enjoying yourself.
00:30:35It is most horrible, is it not?
00:30:37Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new champion.
00:30:40Little girl.
00:30:41A petite cadeau pour toi, eh?
00:30:46Anything?
00:30:48As far as I can tell, they're all just enjoying themselves, which is a little galling.
00:30:52Good to see you.
00:30:53Bonjour.
00:30:54I'm right there.
00:30:55You come also to the face.
00:30:56Oh, it is so fun.
00:30:57My friend comes later and then we go by bus to Torquay.
00:31:01You remember my friend?
00:31:03Oh, wait.
00:31:03I saw her this morning.
00:31:04Oh, yes.
00:31:05The man was rude.
00:31:07Now he is polite.
00:31:12Ah, mademoiselle Bruce.
00:31:15Someone's made a speedy recovery.
00:31:24That what you wear on your head, it is a creation most beautiful.
00:31:27Like something from the Royal Ascot, n'est-ce pas?
00:31:30Set them out all together.
00:31:47You will make a long journey.
00:31:50Possibly by train.
00:31:52I see a luxurious train.
00:31:55And great riches will be yours at the end of your quest.
00:32:02Madame Oliver told me that originally you were to be the victim,
00:32:05but that you had been snatched from her by the occult.
00:32:08I wish I was the body.
00:32:11Oh, this is exhausting.
00:32:13Is it four o'clock yet?
00:32:14I want my tea.
00:32:26What do you think?
00:32:28Je crois que vous avez raison.
00:32:29There is something that is incongru.
00:32:31Yes.
00:32:31And a murder hunt would be awfully convenient if you wanted to conceal a murder, wouldn't it?
00:32:36But a murder, madame, requires a victim.
00:32:38So who is this victim?
00:32:39This is what we must discover.
00:32:41Okay.
00:32:42Teen Lady Stubbs.
00:32:43She's meant to be judging the fancy dress.
00:32:45No.
00:32:45What's the woman playing at?
00:32:47I should have to get someone else.
00:32:49Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
00:32:58Sally.
00:33:11Excuse me.
00:33:15Is this the house of Sir George Stubbs?
00:33:17Yes, d'accord.
00:33:19I am Etienne de Souza.
00:33:20Ah.
00:33:21Enchanté, monsieur.
00:33:23I am Hercule Poirot.
00:33:25D'Souza, is it?
00:33:28George Stubbs.
00:33:30Good day to you.
00:33:31Yes, a jolly busy one actually.
00:33:32You know, welcome to Mass and delighted, delighted to meet you.
00:33:38My cousin Hattie is here?
00:33:39Yes.
00:33:40Yes.
00:33:41Yes she is.
00:33:42You, you will dine with us this evening I hope.
00:33:45Can we put you up?
00:33:45I will sleep on my yacht, the Esperance.
00:33:49How are the devil?
00:33:50It's my wife.
00:33:51You, you hang on here and I'll be straight back.
00:33:56So it is some time since last you saw your cousin?
00:33:58I have not seen her since she was 14 years old.
00:34:02Ah.
00:34:03Then her parents sadly died and she was sent abroad.
00:34:07As a child she promised to have good looks.
00:34:10She is a woman most beautiful, monsieur.
00:34:13And that is her husband.
00:34:16Lady Stubbs, have you seen Lady Stubbs?
00:34:18Have you seen my wife Lady Stubbs?
00:34:20Does anyone see Lady Stubbs?
00:34:23You haven't seen Lady Stubbs, have you?
00:34:25Big hat and the sunglasses.
00:34:36Lady Stubbs, she has disappeared.
00:34:53They look everywhere.
00:34:54She is gone.
00:34:54So where can she be?
00:34:56Anyone think of the boat house?
00:34:58No.
00:34:58Oh.
00:35:06It's locked.
00:35:07To make sure nobody finds the body by accident.
00:35:10It's rather brilliant, don't you think?
00:35:13Marlene!
00:35:14It's Mrs. Oliver.
00:35:15I'm coming in.
00:35:21Marlene, you can get up.
00:35:22It's only me.
00:35:25Marlene?
00:35:28Marlene?
00:35:38Is that what you have feared has happened, mother?
00:35:42Belle est morte.
00:35:44You don't mean...
00:35:45You don't mean...
00:35:47Oh!
00:35:49Marlene!
00:35:58Marlene Tucker.
00:35:59Local girl.
00:36:02Garotted with a length of rope.
00:36:05Doctor says she's still warm.
00:36:08Dead no more than an hour.
00:36:09So the killer isn't far away?
00:36:12I dare say.
00:36:13But who'd want to murder a 14-year-old child?
00:36:17Johnny goes with Kate.
00:36:18Georgie pinches hikers in the wood.
00:36:21So, George Stubbs.
00:36:24I'll, er...
00:36:25I'll need a room, sir.
00:36:26And I'll want to question both yourself and Lady Stubbs, I'm afraid.
00:36:29Yes, of course, but my wife seems to have disappeared from view.
00:36:33We'll find her eventually, but I doubt she'll...
00:36:36She'll be much help.
00:36:37I feel awful.
00:36:40Put that in capital letters.
00:36:42Awful.
00:36:43Because, you see, it's my murder.
00:36:46I organised it.
00:36:48I don't usually drink, but...
00:36:50Poirot gave me this for the shock.
00:36:53Did you say Poirot?
00:36:59I don't suppose you remember me, Monsieur Poirot?
00:37:06Most assuredly.
00:37:12It is the young Sergeant Bland whom I met,
00:37:15it is now since 14, 15 years, in Gloucestershire.
00:37:21What a memory.
00:37:23I cannot for the life of me remember
00:37:25why I should ever have wanted the Yugoslavian wife of a biochemist to be the victim.
00:37:29And I wasn't expecting a man in a yacht.
00:37:31To what man in a yacht?
00:37:33He sent a letter to Lady Stubbs and she was frightened.
00:37:37Frightened of what?
00:37:38Frightened of him.
00:37:39And now she's disappeared.
00:37:41Can you tell me anything about a man in a yacht?
00:37:46Maybe I'm sure Etienne de Souza?
00:37:49The cousin of Lady Stubbs.
00:37:51Who was afraid of this Etienne de Souza? Do you know why?
00:37:56I heard her say he was a bad man.
00:37:58Do you think her fear was real?
00:38:01If it was not, she is an actress very clever.
00:38:05You came ashore in a launch at Nascam Quay.
00:38:08Did you see a small wooden boathouse on your way?
00:38:12Yes. And had I known it belonged to Nass House, I should have come ashore there.
00:38:16But I did not.
00:38:18Did you see any signs of activity?
00:38:20In the boathouse? No.
00:38:23Originally, the part of the victim was to have been played by Sally Legg.
00:38:27But one evening, Sally told all our fortunes and she was thought to be strikingly good at it.
00:38:32Someone suggested one of the girl guides could be the corpse instead, so Sally became Madame Zuleika.
00:38:37Was Marlene Tucker happy to be the victim?
00:38:40Oh, she was thrilled.
00:38:43I noticed a plate and a glass.
00:38:45Yes, she had some jam tarts and a fruit drink.
00:38:48I took the tray down myself. Lady Stubbs asked me to.
00:38:51Right. What time, exactly?
00:38:54Oh, let's see. I'd say about quarter past four.
00:38:56Where were you between a quarter past four and five o'clock?
00:39:00How do you pin it down, sir, exactly?
00:39:03Miss Brewis saw Marlene at 4.15.
00:39:06Lady Stubbs asked her to take down some food and drink to the boathouse.
00:39:09Lady Stubbs asked her to do that. I hardly think so.
00:39:12Lady Stubbs's mind revolves entirely around herself.
00:39:15Marlene could die of malnutrition for all she'd care.
00:39:19At a quarter past four, Marlene Tucker was alive and well.
00:39:22Oh, yes. I called out and she opened the door.
00:39:24She was fine.
00:39:26Moronic, but fine.
00:39:28Do you enjoy working for Sir George?
00:39:31I can't imagine doing anything else.
00:39:34Now, you listen here, Blunt.
00:39:36Now, you've simply got to do something.
00:39:38My wife has been missing for two hours.
00:39:41I am going half mad with worry.
00:39:43I've got men looking into it.
00:39:45We do have a murder to deal with, sir.
00:39:46Well, let's hope it's not two, then.
00:39:49This is a murder investigation.
00:39:51So, would you answer my question, please, sir?
00:39:53Where were you this afternoon?
00:39:56I went to the pub across the river.
00:39:59Working for these lunatics has driven me to drink.
00:40:02How well do you know your cousin?
00:40:04My second cousin.
00:40:06I don't know her when.
00:40:07And yet you just thought you'd pay her a surprise visit.
00:40:10Hardly a surprise visit, Inspector.
00:40:13I wrote to her three weeks ago from St. Marlowe.
00:40:17I said I hope to arrive in Nascam around about today.
00:40:21It is hard to be specific on a sailboat.
00:40:24Did she reply?
00:40:25To be frank with you gentlemen, I don't think cousin Hattie has the mental capacity for writing letters.
00:40:31Though I understand she has grown into a lovely woman.
00:40:34Haven't you seen her?
00:40:36No, I have not.
00:40:38Where is she?
00:40:40She's probably just gone for a walk. She's a grown woman.
00:40:43A rather helpless one, by all accounts.
00:40:45Yes.
00:40:46When she wants to be.
00:40:48Tell me everything you know about Lady Stubbs.
00:40:51How would you describe her?
00:40:55I'd describe her as ornamental.
00:40:59Like a trefoil or a crockett. Pretty, but useless.
00:41:04Backward.
00:41:05Backward?
00:41:07No.
00:41:08Cunning little minx.
00:41:11She didn't leave my boat.
00:41:13The road was closed.
00:41:15I've written she's still on the property somewhere, sir.
00:41:17Why?
00:41:18Nothing to stop her from hopping across a fence and making off across country.
00:41:22Madam was wearing a bias cut chiffon dress,
00:41:26with double rouleau straps, whatever that is.
00:41:29A large red hat and shoes with three inch heels.
00:41:34I don't think she'll be doing no cross country run.
00:41:37She could have changed her clothes.
00:41:38Her maid says nothing's missing.
00:41:41No suitcase packed.
00:41:42Nothing.
00:41:57Lady Stubbs!
00:42:01Lady Stubbs!
00:42:03Lady Stubbs!
00:42:04Lady Stubbs!
00:42:05Lady Stubbs!
00:42:08Hoskins.
00:42:10Stand the men down.
00:42:11Uh-huh.
00:42:12Very well, sir.
00:42:20Inspector Bland.
00:42:22Poirot, he should have prevented the murder of Marlene Tucker.
00:42:25The least he can do is to find the killer.
00:42:28Civo Pomete, I would like to help.
00:42:32Anything?
00:42:34Uh, no, sir. I'm sorry.
00:42:37Sir George, there is something I should like to ask you.
00:42:41Did your wife receive a letter from Mr. de Souza three weeks ago saying he was coming to this country?
00:42:46No, we only heard the man was arriving this morning.
00:42:50Why does she dread seeing him so much?
00:42:52Ah, blessed if I know.
00:42:55Monsieur, exactly what did she say?
00:42:58She said, he kills people.
00:43:05Well, she couldn't actually say who de Souza was supposed to have killed, or where, or why.
00:43:10You know, but don't tell me he arrives here off his yacht and immediately strangles a girl in my boathouse.
00:43:14It doesn't make any sense.
00:43:15Sir George, the door to the boathouse, it has the Yale lock, we?
00:43:19Yeah.
00:43:19So no one may enter without a key?
00:43:22So if you permit me to ask, there are how many keys?
00:43:26Three.
00:43:27One was a clue in the murder hunt and concealed in some foliage at the top of the garden.
00:43:31The second key was in the possession of Mrs. Oliver.
00:43:34Where's the third key?
00:43:34Ah.
00:43:37It's here.
00:43:41There.
00:43:44It always is.
00:43:46Now, do you see what that means?
00:43:47The only people who could have got into the boathouse were, firstly, the person who completed the murder hunt and
00:43:52found the key, which didn't happen.
00:43:55Secondly, Mrs. Oliver, or someone to whom she gave her key, which she says didn't happen and Poirot was with
00:44:01her.
00:44:01Right.
00:44:01Or thirdly, someone who Marlene herself admitted to the room.
00:44:05Ah, but that could be anyone out of two or three hundred people, couldn't it?
00:44:08No, Sir George, because when the girl heard someone to approach, she was to lie down and pretend to be
00:44:13dead.
00:44:14She was to be discovered by the person who had found the final clue, the key.
00:44:19Therefore, the only other people whom she could have admitted when they called to her from the outside were those
00:44:23people who had organized this murder hunt.
00:44:26Yourself, Lady Stubbs, Miss Brewis, Mrs. Oliver?
00:44:29Who else did Marlene know, Sir George?
00:44:32Oh, right.
00:44:33Um, Alec and Sally Legg.
00:44:37Michael Wayman.
00:44:39The Warburton's.
00:44:42Oh, and, uh, Mrs. Follyard.
00:44:50Sorry.
00:44:59It is as you said to me yesterday, madame, a word that is very wicked.
00:45:08Well, it's true.
00:45:12This morning, Lady Stubbs, she also spoke of wickedness.
00:45:16I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says.
00:45:19So everyone tells to me.
00:45:21She has always had the mental age of a child.
00:45:25As you know, madame, such people are not always accountable for their actions.
00:45:29In a fit of rage.
00:45:32They might even kill.
00:45:34No.
00:45:35Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
00:45:38She would never have killed anyone.
00:45:40Never.
00:45:41Then can you think who might have killed Marlene Tucker?
00:45:45No, I can't.
00:45:47What can you tell me about the local people?
00:45:49Captain Warburton?
00:45:50He was working hard at the fate all afternoon.
00:45:53Mrs. Warburton?
00:45:54Enid Warburton runs the Girl Guides and the Gymkhana.
00:45:57She's clearly beyond reproach.
00:46:00And the Leggs, what do you know about them?
00:46:03They're just holidaying here.
00:46:05Madame Legg, she's a lady most attractive, n'est-ce pas?
00:46:09Vivacious.
00:46:09Why?
00:46:11Is it possible that you think that at any time,
00:46:13Sir George Stubbs felt the attractions to Madame Legg?
00:46:16Good heavens, no.
00:46:18Sir George is extremely fond of his wife.
00:46:21Was it you or Lady Stubbs who asked Miss Brewers
00:46:23to take jam tarts down to the girl in the boathouse?
00:46:25Goodness, all these questions.
00:46:27I-I remember Miss Brewers collecting some cakes,
00:46:31but I don't recall that anyone asked her to do so.
00:46:34You were serving in the tea tent between 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock.
00:46:37I believe Mrs. Legg came in there at that time for her tea?
00:46:39No, she didn't.
00:46:41Well, she was dressed as Madame Zuleika, remember?
00:46:45She never set foot in the tea tent.
00:46:50Sorry it's so late, Mrs. Legg.
00:46:52Please, uh, tell me when you last saw Lady Stubbs.
00:46:56I think when I came out of my tent to go and have tea.
00:47:01I remember a hat.
00:47:04Massive, wasn't it?
00:47:06Uh, when did you take your tea?
00:47:084 o'clock.
00:47:11In the tea tent?
00:47:13Was it crowded?
00:47:15Yes, awfully.
00:47:17Coach party from Torquay.
00:47:19Did you see anyone you knew there?
00:47:22Not a soul.
00:47:35Good morning, sir.
00:47:37Is there any sign of Lady Stubbs?
00:47:41No, I do not believe so.
00:47:44Monsieur Hendon, tell me if you please.
00:47:47For how long a time have you been here, the butler?
00:47:49Uh, just over a 12-month, sir.
00:47:55Ah.
00:47:58Merci.
00:48:02There's an invitation from the Lord Lieutenant of the county.
00:48:05Say?
00:48:06And Hodgson's written about the state of the milking sheds.
00:48:10Damn, the milking sheds to hell!
00:48:12Where is my wife?
00:48:16They just don't disappear, do they?
00:48:19No.
00:48:21No.
00:48:32Utter, utter fool!
00:48:34Would no have possessed him to marry her?
00:48:37Eh bien, it has been a marriage unfortunate.
00:48:40Disastrous.
00:48:41All she ever does is spend his money.
00:48:43Why, this year alone she's bought two minks and a Russian ermine.
00:48:47He's such a...
00:48:50He's such an innocent.
00:48:52And she's a sly, scheming, clever cat.
00:48:57You say...
00:49:00Is and not was.
00:49:02She isn't dead.
00:49:04She's gone off with another man.
00:49:06She likes men.
00:49:08She's already made a fool of Michael Wayman.
00:49:10But Monsieur Wayman, he designs a tennis court.
00:49:13Tennis?
00:49:14She wouldn't know a double fork from a fruitcake.
00:49:17Wayman tried it on and she gave him the heave-ho because she's found someone else.
00:49:20So he has too.
00:49:21And if Monsieur Wayman no longer pursues Lady Stubbs, what is it about her that makes you so suspicious of
00:49:26her?
00:49:28She meets someone on the sly, Poirot.
00:49:31She slips out of the house and into the woods.
00:49:34She was out the night before last.
00:49:35All that yawning and saying she's too tired for dinner.
00:49:38Half an hour later she's slipping out by the kitchen door.
00:49:40She's an alley cat, Hattie Stubbs.
00:49:47It's an unpleasant thing to have to face.
00:49:50But I'd say we've some kind of psychological lunatic wandering freely in Devon.
00:49:57He won't be local.
00:49:58Somerset, perhaps.
00:50:00Peut-être.
00:50:02Therefore, a question, if you please.
00:50:04How is it possible for a strange man to have gained access into the boathouse?
00:50:11Easy.
00:50:12She came out.
00:50:14She got bored.
00:50:16Girls do, trust me.
00:50:18The most likely thing is that Marlene saw Hattie Stubbs being murdered, so she had to be disposed of too.
00:50:26Crush her windpipe, drag her back inside, flick the ale easy.
00:50:31So George Stubbs believes that his wife she is still alive?
00:50:35Men will believe anything.
00:50:38Look, I like George Stubbs.
00:50:40He and his wife have done wonders for Nass.
00:50:44Amy Folliot has sponsored them, of course, and she has influence in the county.
00:50:48Why, there have been Folliots here since Tudor times.
00:50:52There have always been Folliots at Nass.
00:50:54There have always been a Miss.
00:51:10I've also been a sippin' boy.
00:51:13I can't say.
00:51:13I can't.
00:51:14I can't.
00:51:19It's Marcus.
00:51:22What do you do to see afar?
00:51:53BIRDS CHIRP
00:52:08BIRDS CHIRP
00:52:48BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:18BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:21Albert loves Doreen. Biddy Fox has a secret then. Oh, Malin, Malin.
00:53:33BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:33Hello, she spies. She looks and she learns.
00:53:52BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:56BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:57BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:58BIRDS CHIRP
00:53:58BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:25BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:30BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:31BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:31BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:35BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:37BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:38BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:45BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:48BIRDS CHIRP
00:54:59BIRDS CHIRP
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00:55:00BIRDS CHIRP
00:55:03BIRDS CHIRP
00:55:08BIRDS CHIRP
00:55:16But I have a warrant to search your vessel.
00:55:24Do you think I'm hiding my little cousin on board?
00:55:27I don't think anything, sir.
00:55:28Rather as I suspected.
00:55:46You have lost something, madame?
00:55:49You made me jump.
00:55:51Yes, I have.
00:55:53Or must one rendezvous when one can?
00:55:57I don't know what you mean.
00:56:03Poirot is not a husband, alas, but...
00:56:07he knows that they can be jealous.
00:56:11I doubt mine is.
00:56:14I hoped, when I came down here,
00:56:18that everything would get better.
00:56:21But it hasn't.
00:56:24Alec's just...
00:56:28Well...
00:56:30He's still Alec.
00:56:35I don't want to live like this.
00:56:38No.
00:56:40Have a look here, sir.
00:56:41Got something?
00:56:42Yes, sir.
00:56:43This is the jacket the gentleman was wearing yesterday.
00:56:47And...
00:56:48what I found in the pocket.
00:56:50What is it?
00:56:51It is the ring worn by Lady Stubbs at the time of disappearance.
00:56:54It matches Sir George's description.
00:56:57How do you come to have this, Mr. de Souza?
00:56:59I've no idea.
00:57:02I've never seen it before.
00:57:04Well, maybe you have, maybe you haven't.
00:57:05But it's grounds enough for me to arrest you.
00:57:07For what may I ask?
00:57:09For being foreign?
00:57:10For the murder of Harriet Stubbs.
00:57:12For the...
00:57:15For the...
00:57:15You have no proof at all.
00:57:17This is meant to be a civilised country.
00:57:20We like to think so, sir.
00:57:22Askins.
00:57:24Is this what you were looking for, madam?
00:57:27Oh, yes.
00:57:31Thank you, Monsieur Poirot.
00:57:35I must have dropped it.
00:57:37Wait.
00:57:49We've got him, Poirot.
00:57:50Her ring is in the pocket of his blazer.
00:57:53With that and all the hearsay evidence, I reckon I can get a conviction.
00:57:56For the murder of Lady Stubbs, whose body has never been found?
00:58:00Well, it was dumped in the river.
00:58:03Floated out to sea.
00:58:04It'll turn up in time.
00:58:06No, I'm sure she was killed here at Nass.
00:58:10If I closed the roads, put a man at the quay, checked all the buses and trains, there was never
00:58:14a sign of her.
00:58:16No.
00:58:17She was dumped in the river, near where we found her hat.
00:58:20And Marlene Tucker saw it happening.
00:58:23So, probably, D'Souza fixed her too.
00:58:26It is not Etienne D'Souza.
00:58:29Why not?
00:58:31How did he know where to find her on his boat?
00:58:33Is it only just arrived?
00:58:35No.
00:58:36It does not make any sense.
00:58:44Bonjour, Monsieur Maudel.
00:58:46Do we want the ferry, sir?
00:58:47Non, merci.
00:58:48I return today to London.
00:58:51Poor fella.
00:58:52Why must he do that?
00:58:56Because Poirot, he has failed.
00:58:59Because...
00:59:01Poirot is imbecile.
00:59:19Poirot is not very unique.
00:59:19When she falls to the ship, she will be sleeping.
00:59:20She is exempt from taking care of to the boat.
00:59:20And she spots them up.
00:59:26The ship has saved us.
00:59:26Why doesn't she put a boat?
00:59:26Why do you think it's okay?
00:59:27Why don't you go to the sea?
00:59:27Why don't you go to it?
00:59:37The ship's Toirot is not a shark.
00:59:47Did Hattie Stubbs ask Mademoiselle Brouyce to take the jam tarts to Marlene Tucker in the boathouse?
00:59:57If not, why did she say that she did?
01:00:02Is it possible that Mademoiselle Brouyce found Marlene Tucker already dead?
01:00:06In which case, why does she not report this?
01:00:09She is the woman most sensible.
01:00:11Unless she killed her, of course.
01:00:12No, pas de motif.
01:00:16Why did Etienne de Souza lie about writing to his cousin three weeks before his arrival at Nassau's?
01:00:23Is it perhaps an attempt to make his visit to appear natural or expected?
01:00:30Certainement, Sir George receives him amicably, although he does not know him.
01:00:35Attendez.
01:00:38Sir George does not know Etienne de Souza, but his wife, who does know him, does not see him.
01:00:47So is it conceivable that the Etienne de Souza who arrives at the Fête is not the real Etienne de
01:00:56Souza?
01:01:00When is his trial?
01:01:02Three weeks.
01:01:03Now the jury will take one look at de Souza, and they will convict him.
01:01:07This man will hang.
01:01:09Usually the villain's the husband.
01:01:11Mais je sais.
01:01:12This husband, he has the alibi.
01:01:15There are two hundred people willing to testify that Sir George, he never left the Fête.
01:01:19But there is someone, someone who knows what happened to Hattie Stubbs.
01:01:25You think the body's still there?
01:01:27It appears that she has been thrown into the river, but it is possible that she is in the grounds.
01:01:34There isn't a priest's hole or anything like that, is there?
01:01:37No, I asked this question to Monsieur Michael Weyman.
01:01:39He tells to me that the house is not of the correct period for this.
01:01:42All the same, there might be something in the structure that only the family know about.
01:01:48But the only member of the family who is left is Madame Fouliard.
01:01:51Well, she knows everything there is to know about Nass, doesn't she?
01:01:56It is a true thing that you say.
01:02:00She knows everything.
01:02:04For example, she knows straight away that Hattie Stubbs is dead.
01:02:07She knows, even before the death of Marlene Tucker, that the world, it is a place most wicked.
01:02:14What is there that she does not know?
01:02:29What's up, man?
01:02:30What's up, man?
01:02:31Oh, man.
01:02:39Oh, man.
01:02:55I hope you want to hide.
01:02:58With your leg?
01:03:03You are leaving Nas' house?
01:03:06Yes.
01:03:09Sally's cleared out.
01:03:10No.
01:03:10With that bastard Wayman.
01:03:12I do not think she will be as happy with him as she would be with you.
01:03:16You think so, do you?
01:03:17Yes, I do, monsieur.
01:03:18And shall I tell you what else I think?
01:03:20I think that your opinions so extreme have made you impossible to live with.
01:03:24Your wife, Sally Legg, she is a woman of loyalty.
01:03:27But you have pushed her too hard, monsieur.
01:03:30You are a man who is very lonely, very desperate.
01:03:34And if you had told your wife, Madame Sally, just how you are so lonely and how you are so
01:03:39desperate,
01:03:39she would never have left you for Michael Wayman.
01:03:42You don't know how right you are.
01:03:44Oui.
01:03:46I've been an absolute dummy.
01:03:48Oui.
01:03:48It's politics, eh, Poirot?
01:03:50It's hardly worth losing your wife for.
01:03:52Non.
01:03:53I do not think they are, monsieur.
01:03:54Non.
01:03:56What should I do?
01:03:57I think what you should do, monsieur, is to find Madame Sally, but immediately.
01:04:01Ask her to forgive you and beg her to come back.
01:04:03And Hercule Poirot, he is always right, monsieur.
01:04:06Do you know, I think I will.
01:04:08Bon.
01:04:08And I'll go to the bloody Chelsea Arts Club, and I'll get hold of Michael Wayman,
01:04:11and I'll throttle the ponce with his ridiculous tie.
01:04:14Bon.
01:04:15And if you please, monsieur Legg, do not actually kill him, eh?
01:04:21Ben, what should I do?
01:04:27On the opposite side of therum?
01:04:38What Yeah, what?
01:04:48And I'll take off me.
01:04:49Fine.
01:04:49That's good,ousse.
01:04:49I feel very sorry for George.
01:04:51The strain has been very great.
01:04:54So George still believes that his wife, she is alive?
01:05:00I think he's given up hope.
01:05:02He does not say so.
01:05:06Of course, I've hardly seen him lately.
01:05:09Spends most of his time in London.
01:05:12He's drinking too much.
01:05:17I am very tired, Monsieur Poirot.
01:05:20I have not much to live for.
01:05:24But you have your home.
01:05:27Monsieur, I am grateful to George Stamps for renting me the lodge,
01:05:31but I do rent it.
01:05:32I pay him a yearly sum for it, with a right to walk in the grounds,
01:05:37the grounds of my ancestral home.
01:05:40Oh, je suis désolée, madame.
01:05:42I do not mean to offend.
01:05:43I mean only to say that this is a place so beautiful.
01:05:47It is, in fact, one of the most beautiful places
01:05:49I have seen in England.
01:05:50It has about it the great peace and the great serenity.
01:05:57Yes.
01:05:58But is there still the same peace and serenity now, madame?
01:06:01Why shouldn't there be?
01:06:02Because the murder, it is gone unavenged,
01:06:04and blood, it has been spilled.
01:06:06And here is the smell of it, the reek of it,
01:06:08drifting across the lawn on the breeze.
01:06:10I think that is quite enough.
01:06:11Madame, until the curse is lifted, there will be no peace at Nas.
01:06:14You know this is true.
01:06:17And you know a great deal, perhaps, everything about the murder.
01:06:19You know who killed the girl.
01:06:21You know why.
01:06:22You know who killed Hattie Stamps.
01:06:23And you know, perhaps, where the body yet now lies.
01:06:26I have only my suspicions.
01:06:29And to speak out on mere suspicion would be wrong.
01:06:33Wicked.
01:06:33As wicked as what was done here at his house is five weeks.
01:06:36As wicked as the killing of a girl who has only 14 years of age.
01:06:39Don't talk about it.
01:06:40It's over and done.
01:06:41It's finished.
01:06:42No, madame.
01:06:42It is never finished with a murder.
01:06:45Jamais.
01:06:51Mademoiselle.
01:06:53Where is Monsieur Medel?
01:06:54Grandad.
01:06:56He's dead.
01:06:58Grandad?
01:07:00So Monsieur Medel was your grandfather?
01:07:06Hello.
01:07:07Your grandfather, he was very old, huh?
01:07:08He didn't die because he was old.
01:07:11He died because he was drunk.
01:07:13He slipped when getting off the boat one night and fell in.
01:07:17Washed up two days later at Helmuth.
01:07:20And how do you call yourself?
01:07:22Gertie Tucker.
01:07:23A relation to Marlene Tucker?
01:07:27Her was my sister.
01:07:29So Monsieur Medel was her grandfather also?
01:07:32He got cross at her when she got the makeup.
01:07:35The makeup, Gertie?
01:07:36Loads of lipstick she had.
01:07:37And sent.
01:07:38Hidden in her nickel drawer.
01:07:41Lovely they was.
01:07:44Tell to me, Gertie, how did Marlene get the money to buy these things?
01:07:47Her see goings on in the woods.
01:07:51Marlene will promise not to tell and they give her money.
01:07:54But who would give her ma...
01:08:05At last, at last.
01:08:08Poirot, he begins to see.
01:08:17Come at once.
01:08:20Nurse House Devon.
01:08:23Mais pourquoi?
01:08:24Because it is important, madame.
01:08:27I should hope so.
01:08:29I was due to give a talk.
01:08:31That's why I'm dressed in this ridiculous outfit.
01:08:33Instead, I ran for the express train.
01:08:35What was the subject of your talk?
01:08:37My writing.
01:08:38Awfully pleased not to have to give it as a matter of fact.
01:08:40I mean, what does one say about how one writes books?
01:08:42You just think of an idea and force yourself to write it.
01:08:45What am I going to say for the other 59 minutes?
01:08:49Madame, your hat.
01:08:52C'est magnifique.
01:08:53Oh, thank you.
01:08:55It's jolly expensive.
01:08:57Hats are really a symbol nowadays, aren't they?
01:08:59They don't keep your head warm or shield you from the sun or hide your face from people you don't
01:09:04want to meet.
01:09:04I mean, they're just ornamental.
01:09:08Always you give to me the ideas.
01:09:13Tell to me, madame, in your murder hunt you have as one of your suspects a biochemist.
01:09:19Do you know a biochemist personally?
01:09:21Yes.
01:09:22I know Alec Legg.
01:09:23And you also know his wife Sally Legg.
01:09:25But she is not Yugoslavian, is she?
01:09:28So what gives to you the idea of having a wife who is Yugoslavian for the victim?
01:09:32I don't know, all those youth hostilers perhaps?
01:09:35All those girls in shorts?
01:09:37But madame, I am most interested in how you write.
01:09:40You are a woman who is most sensitive.
01:09:43You are affected by the atmosphere, by the personalities that surround you.
01:09:47These are the inspirations for your brain that is so fertile.
01:09:51So tell to me madame, when you first designed your murder hunt,
01:09:54did you intend for the body to be discovered in the boat house?
01:09:58No, I did not.
01:09:59Ah.
01:10:00I intended it to be found in that pavilion, tucked away among the rhododendrons.
01:10:05But then someone, I can't remember who, began insisting it should be found in the folly.
01:10:12Well, that was obviously bonkers.
01:10:15I mean, anyone could have strolled in there quite casually.
01:10:18I couldn't agree to that.
01:10:19No.
01:10:19So you accepted the boat house instead.
01:10:22And that was the technique that you described to me on that first day.
01:10:26Remember the jockeying along?
01:10:29One last thing, madame.
01:10:32Do you remember telling me that there was a final clue on one of the comics that was given to
01:10:36Marlene Tucker to read?
01:10:37Was it something like, Biddy Fox has a secret den?
01:10:42Good gracious me, no.
01:10:44But nothing silly like that.
01:10:46No, it was a perfectly straightforward clue.
01:10:48Look in the hiker's rucksack.
01:10:51Et pas tant.
01:10:52The comic on which that was written would have to be taken away.
01:10:55Why?
01:10:56Because the media at Moin points to the murderer.
01:11:02Inspector Bland, you must telephone to Scotland Yard.
01:11:05You're too sweet.
01:11:05Why?
01:11:06Because Etienne de Souza, he is innocent.
01:11:09No, he is a man of great wealth.
01:11:11So what?
01:11:12So, what is his motive?
01:11:16Let me put to you the facts.
01:11:18Facts? What facts?
01:11:19The fact that old John Murdel was the grandfather of Marlene Tucker.
01:11:23The fact that Lady Stubbs always wore those particular types of floppy hat.
01:11:27The fact that Marlene Tucker had cosmetics hidden in the back of her drawer.
01:11:32And the fact that Mademoiselle Bruce maintains it was Lady Stubbs who asked her to take refreshments to the Boathouse.
01:11:39You call those facts, do you, in London?
01:11:41You prefer the hard evidence, such as the body of Lady Stubbs.
01:11:45Hello, I know where it is hidden and who hid it there.
01:11:49So, if you please, to make that telephone call to Scotland Yard.
01:11:53I don't know where it is.
01:12:07See you next time.
01:12:08I'm going to go to the Old Kingdom to Scotland Yard.
01:12:11I'm going to go to the Old Kingdom to Scotland Yard.
01:12:14I'm going to go to the Old Kingdom to Scotland Yard.
01:12:24Why did you ask me to come here?
01:12:26I think that you know, madam.
01:12:35Good evening, sir.
01:12:48There have now been three murders.
01:12:51Hattie Stubbs, Marlene Tucker, and John Murdell.
01:12:57Murdell?
01:12:59That was an accident.
01:13:01He fell from the quayside.
01:13:02He was drunk.
01:13:03No.
01:13:04No, it was not an accident, mother.
01:13:08He knew too much.
01:13:11He knew all about the Folliott family.
01:13:12He knew about your husband.
01:13:14He knew about your two sons who died abroad.
01:13:20Only they did not, did they?
01:13:23Henry was indeed killed in action on the northwest frontier.
01:13:26But James?
01:13:28No, he did not die as you said.
01:13:33James, who was so brilliant, so wild.
01:13:38James, who was also to you so shaming.
01:13:42John Murdell told me of him, madam, and the records have been checked.
01:13:48What did he do to that young dairy maid when he was only 14 years of age?
01:13:52Do you know?
01:13:54I mean.
01:13:56And where did you send him, madam?
01:14:05South Africa.
01:14:06When?
01:14:08You said you never saw him again.
01:14:12You heard that he had died in an aeroplane crash.
01:14:15You moaned.
01:14:16You said your prayers, but what then has happened, madam?
01:14:23He came back.
01:14:25Why?
01:14:25Because your son, he made the pretense of his own death.
01:14:28And then you learned that he is pursued by the police in several countries.
01:14:33And you agree, and he must have been so persuasive, you agree to give him one more chance.
01:14:39Just one.
01:14:40Why?
01:14:43I believe that you are a woman most sincere and most moral.
01:14:51And I believe that it was from the best of your intentions that you did everything you could to give
01:14:56to your son, who was wayward, a new life.
01:15:02At that time, you had in your charge a young girl who was sadly subnormal.
01:15:08Oh, but she was rich, young.
01:15:10So rich.
01:15:10She was worth a fortune.
01:15:13But you gave it out that her parents had lost all their money, and you were advising her to marry
01:15:17a man who was wealthy and several years older than herself.
01:15:24And who could disbelieve you?
01:15:26Your lawyers in Paris, where you were living at that time, handled everything.
01:15:30And Hattie Stubbs, when she came of age, would sign whatever you put in front of her.
01:15:37And so in the end, Sir George Stubbs, the new identity assumed by your son James, became a man who
01:15:47was very rich.
01:15:48Rich enough to buy Nass' house.
01:15:52And there your plans, they ended, eh, my man?
01:15:56Your son, he was a wealthy man.
01:15:58He had his ancestral home.
01:16:00And Hattie Stubbs, well, you could take care of her.
01:16:06Samash!
01:16:07I never dreamed.
01:16:09No, you never dreamed that your son James, he was already married.
01:16:13He was married to a girl he met in Trieste.
01:16:15A girl of the criminal underworld, who is determined not to be parted from your son.
01:16:20He's a wicked, wicked creature.
01:16:22But your Hattie knew no one in England.
01:16:28Good evening, Hattie.
01:16:31Come along, my dear.
01:16:34When they arrived back at Nass' house after their marriage, all of the servants who were new, including the butler,
01:16:39barely caught sight of her that first evening.
01:16:44And the following morning, the woman that they met was not Hattie Stubbs, no, but this Italian, made up to
01:16:50look like Hattie, behaving as Hattie.
01:16:51But Hattie, the real Hattie, was dead.
01:16:57She was killed the first evening she arrived here by your son.
01:17:00Wait, by your son, madam.
01:17:02James Folliatt.
01:17:05This plan, it was so clever.
01:17:10The false Hattie Stubbs over the years would respond to treatment.
01:17:14She would get better and better and make the full recovery.
01:17:19But this Italian did not convince Mademoiselle Brewis, who was herself in love with Sir George.
01:17:29But then something unforeseen occurs.
01:17:34A cousin of Hattie, Etienne de Souza, writes to her a telegram.
01:17:40Oh, no.
01:17:42Telling her that he is visiting England on a yachting trip.
01:17:45Is it, darling?
01:17:45Well, I know, he would not be deceived by an imposter.
01:17:49But Hattie's strange, is it not?
01:17:52That although the thought had he crossed my mind that this Etienne de Souza may not be Etienne de Souza,
01:17:58it never occurred to Poirot that Hattie Stubbs was not Hattie Stubbs.
01:18:06And there was a further complication.
01:18:10John Murdel used to...
01:18:14What is the word?
01:18:17Chatter.
01:18:18To his granddaughter, Marlene Tucker.
01:18:21If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on,
01:18:26he's liable to be a sex maniac, isn't he?
01:18:28Well, nobody else would listen to him because they thought he was a little daft.
01:18:33But he told to his granddaughter, Marlene, that Sir George was, in fact, Master James.
01:18:43Hello, Marlene Tucker.
01:18:46She blackmails Sir George for her silence.
01:18:49But in so doing, she signs her death warrant.
01:18:55They arrange it so that Marlene Tucker is killed and Hattie Stubbs goes missing.
01:19:02In such a way, the suspicion it is thrown unto her cousin Etienne de Souza.
01:19:08Hence the references to him being a man most wicked.
01:19:12Delighted to meet you last.
01:19:14And Sir George, he plants the evidence.
01:19:20This lady Stubbs was to disappear permanently.
01:19:26After a period of mourning, Sir George would rejoin her in Italy, where they would again be married.
01:19:33All that was necessary for her now was to double the parts for a little more than a period of,
01:19:38what, 24 hours.
01:19:41When Hercule Poirot, he arrives, Hattie Stubbs takes the bus to Exeter.
01:19:46Afternoon, lady.
01:19:47And travels back in the company of a youth hosteler she meets on the train.
01:19:52You don't mind these, sir.
01:19:54She books into the hostel with this Dutch girl.
01:19:58But by tea time, she is here, back at her window.
01:20:06After dinner, she retires early to bed.
01:20:09I feel strange.
01:20:11But Mademoiselle Brouz sees her to slip out of the back door.
01:20:17She spends the night in the youth hostel, returns to Nass for breakfast,
01:20:23after which she spends the rest of the morning in her room with her headache.
01:20:30She then stages her appearance as a trespasser.
01:20:36You can't! You can't move here!
01:20:39Sir George shouts to her from the window of his wife.
01:20:43What's that, Hattie?
01:20:44He turns and even pretends to speak to her inside.
01:20:49She is not there.
01:20:51No one would ever dream that these two women were the same person.
01:20:56And no one did.
01:20:59And so the final act of this drama, it is staged.
01:21:03A little before four o'clock on the day of the fate,
01:21:06Hattie Stubbs tells the Mademoiselle Brouz to take the jam tarts to Marlene.
01:21:11Now, she does this because she is afraid that Mademoiselle Brouz may do this independently,
01:21:14and that would be fatal to their plans.
01:21:16She slips into the tent of the fortune teller, while Sally Legg is out,
01:21:22as she has a secret rendezvous with Michael Wayman.
01:21:28She goes through the back into the pavilion,
01:21:30where she changes into the costume of a hiker,
01:21:32which she kept in her rucksack.
01:21:43And that is why the pavilion, it was not used for the murder hunt.
01:21:49She then goes down to the boathouse and calls to Marlene to let her in.
01:21:57And she strangles her.
01:22:06She leaves her big floppy hat by the riverside,
01:22:10and hastily joins her Dutch friend on the lawn.
01:22:15A little before five, they take the bus to Torquay,
01:22:18and a little after five, the police, they arrive.
01:22:25Where she is now, I do not know.
01:22:28But I am convinced that the police, they will find her.
01:22:31Remember, Madame, that before they were not looking for an Italian confidence trickster.
01:22:36No.
01:22:37They were looking for Hattie.
01:22:42Simple, subnormal.
01:22:46And dead.
01:22:48And this you have always known, Madame.
01:22:51You revealed your knowledge to me.
01:22:53When you spoke to me in the dining room on the evening of the fete,
01:22:56you revealed most clearly, although Poirot, he did not see it at the time,
01:23:01that when speaking of Hattie Stubbs...
01:23:02I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says.
01:23:05You were speaking of two different people.
01:23:09Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
01:23:12She would never have killed anyone.
01:23:13Never!
01:23:14Never!
01:23:16There remained one problem to be dealt with.
01:23:21The man who knew the truth about your son, John Murdel.
01:23:28His death is made to look like an accident,
01:23:31as if he had fallen into the water while he was drunk.
01:23:39But, in fact, it was murder, Madame.
01:23:42Murder committed by your son, James Folliatt.
01:23:51Hello, if you're pleased to come with me, Madame.
01:24:02It is a good place to bury a body.
01:24:06A tree, it is uprooted in a storm.
01:24:09The soil, it is disturbed.
01:24:12And very soon, a young lady,
01:24:14she is covered with concrete.
01:24:22And on the concrete, a folly, it is built.
01:24:26The folly of the owner of Nass.
01:24:29Monsieur Poirot, I will face my punishment.
01:24:32I assure you of that.
01:24:35But, before I do,
01:24:36will you give me a few moments with my son,
01:24:40as a courtesy to an old lady?
01:24:47As a courtesy from an old gentleman, Madame.
01:24:53I will allow it.
01:24:56Bless you.
01:24:59All right.
01:25:01Let's bring in Sir George.
01:25:02If you're pleased to wait.
01:25:04I have allowed to Madame Folliatt a few moments.
01:25:09You've no authority to do that.
01:25:13Dommage.
01:25:15It is done.
01:25:39Mother, and what are you doing here?
01:25:48They are digging up the folly.
01:25:53You know what they will find.
01:26:04Right a good scheme.
01:26:08Almost worked.
01:26:11It was like every one of your schemes.
01:26:15It was cruel and criminal.
01:26:18And it failed.
01:26:22You have brought disgrace to the family name.
01:26:26The name of Folliatt.
01:26:30Dear God.
01:26:39What am I to do?
01:26:43You will do, James.
01:26:47Exactly what I tell you.
01:26:52For once.
01:26:53Just for once.
01:26:55You will obey your mother.
01:27:02What put you on to them?
01:27:05Intuition, perhaps?
01:27:08Nominum.
01:27:10The deduction.
01:27:13When old John, mother, told to me there will always be Folliatt's at Nass,
01:27:19it was his little private joke.
01:27:21And Poirot, he has realized this very late.
01:27:27You see, Madame.
01:27:30He knew.
01:27:33So now will you release D'Souza?
01:27:36Yes.
01:27:38All right.
01:27:39Time's up.
01:27:40Come on.
01:27:47Quick.
01:27:49Follow me.
01:27:50Don't touch.
01:27:51Yes, sir.
01:27:52Don't touch.
01:28:02Don't touch.
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