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Agatha Christies Poirot S13E03 Dead Mans Folly OFT
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00:00:00The End
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.
00:01:14Good evening, sir.
00:01:17Good evening, sir.
00:01:51Come at once, Nass House, Devon.
00:01:54You need help. Urgent.
00:01:57Ariadne 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, merci.
00:02:18Afternoon, ladies.
00:02:20You don't mind, sir. Foreigners, see.
00:02:23Can't read a map.
00:02:25Buongiorno.
00:02:26Ma'am, I say.
00:02:39Thank you. It is most kind, please.
00:02:42Grazie.
00:02:43Marge to the youth hostel.
00:02:44Oh, her is not speaks English.
00:02:47We meet the first time this morning on the platform at Exeter.
00:02:50And now we are big friends.
00:02:53We explore Devon together.
00:02:54I could show you a few beauty spots, if you like.
00:02:57Come on.
00:03:06Gastel's that way.
00:03:07Don't cross the Georges 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?
00:03:45Welcome to Mars, monsieur.
00:03:51I believe Mrs. Oliver to be down by the battery, sir, that way.
00:04:02Let's see.
00:04:20What are you doing?
00:04:21You don't like it.
00:04:21I don't like it.
00:04:21I don't like it.
00:04:38Help!
00:04:39Help!
00:04:40Come on!
00:04:40Quick!
00:04:42Help!
00:04:44Help!
00:04:49Someone!
00:04:51Quick!
00:04:51Quick!
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.
00:05:02How lively one might have to shout.
00:05:04These words are frightfully dead.
00:05:05I thought you were in danger.
00:05:07Certainly not.
00:05:08How are you, Poirot?
00:05:10Un peu énervé, chère madame.
00:05:15You telegram to me that you need help.
00:05:18For this reason, I come by the express from London.
00:05:20Well...
00:05:23I 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.
00:05:41And 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, and 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?
00:06:00Because 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?
00:06:17The Warburton's, I think.
00:06:19The 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.
00:06:31But as dumb as a fish.
00:06:39The corpse will be in here.
00:06:42Sally Legg was going to do it, but now they want her to dress up in a turban and tell
00:06:46fortunes.
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.
00:06:55I've written a clue on one of them.
00:06:56And flop down when she hears someone coming with 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.
00:07:07Madame Rosa.
00:07:08Lady Stubbs must be rushed off her feet with all the preparations.
00:07:11I do 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.
00:07:26So 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?
00:07:36Writers 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.
00:07:47I'm...
00:07:47I'm worried.
00:07:50Perhaps the big suggestion that he's 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.
00:08:00Yes.
00:08:00Something like that.
00:08:01Yes.
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 them that Hercule Poirot is coming?
00:08:11Yes.
00:08:12I said you'd be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt.
00:08:14Oh.
00:08:15Everyone's thrilled.
00:08:16Mrs. Oliver!
00:08:17Hang on.
00:08:18I'll walk up with you.
00:08:19All safe, sir.
00:08:23This is Michael Wayman.
00:08:24An architect.
00:08:27I'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.
00:08:39For 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.
00:08:54And 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.
00:09:00But no.
00:09:01A tree comes down in a gale.
00:09:03Right to the self-made twerk.
00:09:05We'll put the folly there.
00:09:06Tidy up the place.
00:09:07Look, it's only on a yard of concrete.
00:09:09Subsiding already.
00:09:12These people are extraordinary.
00:09:19That's Amy Folliard.
00:09:21Her people owned Nass originally.
00:09:24Then she lost both her sons.
00:09:26Had 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 prizes.
00:09:41This clever lady has contrived a most intricate problem.
00:09:45I 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.
00:09:54But it burned down.
00:09:55It must be hard for you to have strangers living in residence now.
00:10:00Not 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?
00:10:11Come on.
00:10:13It is only one instance since I have arrived.
00:10:15Well, I've been here three days.
00:10:17And every time someone says something, I 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 calls things by different names, huh?
00:10:33It 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, that you do not know what it is that you
00:10:43know.
00:10:44You are aware only of the result.
00:10:46And 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.
00:11:24What?
00:11:24Poirot, is it?
00:11:25Me?
00:11:26Welcome.
00:11:27Welcome, Madame.
00:11:28Merci, Monsieur.
00:11:29Yes.
00:11:29George Stubbs.
00:11:30It's a pleasure to meet you.
00:11:32I'm delighted you could come.
00:11:33Ah.
00:11:34Yes.
00:11:34Let me introduce you to some people.
00:11:36The fortune-telling.
00:11:37Over by the Magnolia, or 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 cargo 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.
00:11:51Not too near the house, Jim.
00:11:52I just replaced the windows.
00:11:55Fair point.
00:11:56Now, may I introduce the famous gent, Hercule Poirot.
00:12:01Yes, indeed, Monsieur Poirot.
00:12:03Captain and Mrs. Warburton.
00:12:04Hello there.
00:12:05Captain.
00:12:06Delighted.
00:12:06Madame.
00:12:07Yes.
00:12:07Now, Alec and Sally Legg.
00:12:10Monsieur.
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.
00:12:22I think.
00:12:23This is Mr. Poirot.
00:12:25It's our guest.
00:12:26Madame.
00:12:27Now, you chat nicely.
00:12:28Why?
00:12:29I go and locate some coconut.
00:12:30Oh.
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 jolie.
00:12:44It's an emerald.
00:12:46George gave it to me.
00:12:47He gives me lots of things.
00:12:52He...
00:12:57Devonshire is the county most pleasant, n'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.
00:13:05I love music and dancing and champagne and 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.
00:13:26Shall I be mother?
00:13:28Uh-huh.
00:13:28Is it going to be like Asgard tomorrow?
00:13:30I can wear a very big hat.
00:13:32Not quite like Asgard, dear.
00:13:34There's so much to do.
00:13:36You really should be helping out instead of staying in bed till after lunch.
00:13:40I've got a new dress.
00:13:42Oh, 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, I couldn't say.
00:14:03But then he's hardly an intellectual himself, is he?
00:14:06Sir George is inside the stocks and shares, I believe.
00:14:08Yes.
00:14:09Not exactly a gentleman's game, what?
00:14:11But still, you are the friends.
00:14:14Good grief.
00:14:14No choice.
00:14:16Not with an election coming up.
00:14:18Jim, you've got to settle this.
00:14:21We agreed my tent should be at the forum by the rhododendrons as 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.
00:14:34Have you seen Amy Folliott?
00:14:36I believe that Madame Folliott is inside with the lady Stubbs.
00:14:40She seems to be more solicitous towards her.
00:14:42Ah, yes.
00:14:43Well, she was Hattie's guardian.
00:14:46Before I walked her up the aisle, of course.
00:14:49Her people were in sugar in the Caribbean.
00:14:52But there was a typhus epidemic and both her mother and her father lost their lives.
00:14:56Rotten bloody luck, actually.
00:14:58But Amy Folliott was a friend of the family and took young Hattie under the wing.
00:15:02Well, that is 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 wire 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.
00:15:16Over there in the woods where they're coming through, they just keep wandering in.
00:15:18Who are?
00:15:20Trespassers.
00:15:21Foreigners.
00:15:22Cutting through, you see, Poirot.
00:15:23Through to the ferry.
00:15:25Girls in little short trousers.
00:15:27Oh, read 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.
00:15:34Good thing.
00:15:35Right, sir.
00:15:36How many has he got?
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.
00:15:49In fait du gendarme?
00:15:51Well, 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 should 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?
00:16:13Oh, 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 Lake 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.
00:16:42Mrs. 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?
00:17:08One 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?
00:17:26That 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.
00:17:39Try your stab childhood.
00:17:40I'm laughing .
00:17:44You v'ere, don't run.
00:17:53Good time.
00:17:54I don't want to die.
00:17:56No, bullies.
00:17:59That's right, you're suffering.
00:18:01You are my fault.
00:18:06No, godson .
00:18:22you permit madam I'm so sorry Hattie dragged me off earlier it was rude of
00:18:34her lady Stubbs is a little common on the Capricious Hattie is a dear good child I know her very
00:18:45well
00:18:45you see because she was once your ward my husband died in Flanders my elder son was killed on active
00:18:55service against the Pashtun and cap a sorry tale my youngest son took up aviation and crashed trying
00:19:06to break the record to Nairobi that meant three lots of death duties well Ness had to be sold I
00:19:18was
00:19:18very unhappy and I was glad of the distraction of having the young person to look after for a time
00:19:26we lived in Paris my we had fun I became very fond of Hattie all the more so when I
00:19:34realized that she
00:19:35was not terribly capable thank heaven there was no money to speak off had she been an heiress I'd live
00:19:47to think how vulnerable she might have been but her father died bankrupt and we felt ourselves
00:19:53fortunate when George Stubbs came along it was most fortunate indeed George Stubbs is a good man oh I
00:20:04know he's a complete Bulgarian but he is fundamentally decent I think that you have made the arrangement
00:20:11most prudent madam I am not like the English or romantic about these matters if was he here you
00:20:17are still at Nassau's sir George lets me live in the lodge and I count myself very lucky indeed you
00:20:26have found for yourself a haven most peaceful madam a haven from the storm yes the world is a wicked
00:20:37place
00:20:37Mr. Poirot there are very wicked people in it thank you
00:21:07what do you want me to put on this poster madame Zuleika or Romany Lee gypsy queen no one likes
00:21:13gypsies
00:21:14around here better make it madame Zuleika a snake around in there snake in the grass I had a snake
00:21:22once
00:21:22but it swallowed the rabbit had to chop it up quite good fun do you still paint Michael like you
00:21:30used to sold out
00:21:31Sally 30 pieces of silver everyone has to earn a living what in Parliament Jim that's not really an
00:21:38honest living now is it waste of time Parliament don't be such a rotten old silk why Alec has a
00:21:45point what do you think this is all about should all politicians be eliminated eliminated I don't
00:21:51know they make ever such good suspects as a rule they certainly do I mean just look at my husband
00:21:58you couldn't get more shifty if you tried excuse me I'm going to bed Hattie I feel strange
00:22:09darling darling we're at dinner
00:22:22oh lady Stubbs has gone early to bed
00:22:25malheureusement oui she suffers perhaps from the mental confusion
00:22:29oh no she knows exactly what she's doing
00:22:37what do you think I think madame that I take the little walk
00:23:02monsieur do we want the ferry sir oh no no merci I stay at mass oh
00:23:08oh it is up at Nass you are right I work for the Folliats many a year
00:23:15none of them left now of course except old mum up at the lodge
00:23:18met her have we madame Folliat oui bad luck her lad trouble with her husband
00:23:25trouble with her sons they were all right when they was boys always down here
00:23:31crabbing but when they grows up master Henry died for his country fair dues but master James
00:23:39he was wild one of they as couldn't go straight by was vexing master James airplanes flying that's no way
00:23:50to die
00:23:51no no indeed hello what is your opinion of Sir George oh pardon
00:23:58monsieur John Myrtle monsieur Myrtle oh no no merci gentlemen be powerful rich wife's a fine lady from London
00:24:10there I remember the night they arrived worst gale we ever had big tree down in the woods made a
00:24:17rare mess
00:24:18where the folly it now stands yeah damn silly place for it too never happen in squire's day in London
00:24:25nonsense
00:24:26it is sad is it not at the time for the Folliats family it is finished always be Folliats at
00:24:33Nass
00:24:34monsieur oh mum's still be here by shape and I turn but we
00:25:26now here are some new ideas for the pagoda what do you think see
00:25:32now here are some new ideas for the pagoda what do you think see
00:25:41oh no what is it darling it's from my cousin Etienne he's coming here
00:25:47he's coming in his yacht oh no oh my I see
00:25:58who is this Etienne de Souza distant cousin
00:26:01he says he's coming here today well it's a pity he's dropping by in the afternoon of the
00:26:05fae but never mind we shall make him welcome no we can't we can oh I need to lie down
00:26:10I have a
00:26:11headache Hattie dear take some aspirin and then it will go away shall I bring you some no
00:26:16sweetheart excuse me oh Hattie darling I don't want to see Etienne I don't like him he's wicked
00:26:23he does bad things
00:26:30no Rogers put the urn on the left
00:26:33hi yo mum
00:26:33the left
00:26:35oh the left
00:26:37oh hello Poirot
00:26:40bonjour nanda what a beautiful day
00:26:43Yes.
00:26:45And isn't it nice to have Lass lived in again?
00:26:49We were all so afraid it would become a 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, do you understand?
00:27:32The youth hostel is that way.
00:27:34This is private land.
00:27:36Hop it.
00:27:38This won't do.
00:27:42Oh, Poirot.
00:27:45Might I meet you in the study?
00:27:48What's that, Hattie?
00:27:49Yes, I'll shut it.
00:27:56Well, I put a padlock on the gate.
00:27:58They come through the wood.
00:27:59They don't seem to understand a word 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, it precisely was Italian.
00:28:07Yes, foreign.
00:28:12La Poirot.
00:28:14He wants 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?
00:28:28Oh, 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.
00:28:42I'm sorry.
00:28:43I'm just being pathetic, but if you should see her getting up to anything, I mean anything
00:28:54anything at all, 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 fakes open.
00:29:30Bravo!
00:29:33Mother, let us separate.
00:29:36We shall watch with the peel down.
00:29:44Mr. 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.
00:30:06Yes, sir.
00:30:07You look lucky.
00:30:08Yes, sir.
00:30:09You look lucky.
00:30:10It's for charity, sir.
00:30:11Children's facts in the rest.
00:30:13Form up the whole environment.
00:30:16You've won.
00:30:17Well done.
00:30:18Congratulations, sir.
00:30:21Here's the first clue.
00:30:22Here'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, a petit cadeau pour toi, eh?
00:30:46Anything?
00:30:47No.
00:30:48As far as I can tell, they're all just enjoying themselves, which is a little galling.
00:30:51Hello.
00:30:52Good to see you.
00:30:53Bonjour.
00:30:54I'm right there.
00:30:55You come also to the thing?
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?
00:31:03I saw her this morning.
00:31:04Oh, yes.
00:31:05The man was rude.
00:31:07Now he is polite.
00:31:10Ah, Mme. Bruce.
00:31:15Someone's made a speedy recovery.
00:31:22Madame.
00:31:24That which you wear on your head, it is a creation most beautiful.
00:31:27Like something from the Royal Ascot, huh?
00:31:47You will make a long journey, possibly by train.
00:31:52I see a luxurious train.
00:31:55And great riches will be yours at the end of your quest.
00:32:00Ah.
00:32:02Madame Malava 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.
00:32:10Oh, this is exhausting.
00:32:12Is 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.
00:32:41I say, I've seen Lady Stubbs.
00:32:43She's meant to be judging the fancy dress.
00:32:45No.
00:32:46What's the woman playing at?
00:32:47I shall 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?
00:33:17Oui, d'accord.
00:33:19I am Etienne de Souza.
00:33:20Ah.
00:33:21Enchanté, monsieur.
00:33:23I am Mercure Poirot.
00:33:25De Souza, is it?
00:33:29George 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?
00:33:46I will sleep on my yacht, the Esperance.
00:33:49And where the devil is 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?
00:33:59I 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?
00:34:19Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
00:34:23You haven't seen Lady Stubbs, have you?
00:34:25Big hat, and the sunglasses.
00:34:28She seems to have completely disappeared.
00:34:32I feel certain that slime is going to die.
00:34:36Lady Stubbs?
00:34:38No.
00:34:38I saw a blasted girl, too.
00:34:40The world is a wicked place, I should know.
00:34:44Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
00:34:45Hattie?
00:34:46Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
00:34:48Lady Stubbs, you have a seat.
00:34:50Can I have you?
00:34:51Lady 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?
00:35:06It'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?
00:35:39Is that what you have feared has happened, Mother?
00:35:42Elle est morte.
00:35:44You don't mean...
00:35:45You don't mean...
00:35:49Marlene!
00:35:58Marlene Tucker, local girl.
00:36:03Garotting with a length of rope.
00:36:06Doctor says she's still warm.
00:36:08Dead no more than an hour.
00:36:10So the killer isn't far away?
00:36:11I dare say.
00:36:13But who'd want to murder a 14-year-old child?
00:36:17Johnny goes with Kate.
00:36:19Georgie pinches hikers in the wood.
00:36:22So, George Stubbs.
00:36:24I'll need a room, sir.
00:36:26And I 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.
00:36:38I 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 Poirot 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
00:37:28to 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?
00:37:55Do you know why?
00:37:55I heard her say he was a bad man.
00:37:59Do you think her fear was real?
00:38:01If it was not, she is an actress.
00:38:03Very clever.
00:38:04You came ashore in a launch at Nascam Quay.
00:38:08Did you see a small wooden boathouse on your way?
00:38:12Yes.
00:38:13And had I known it belonged to Nass House,
00:38:15I 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?
00:38:21No.
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
00:38:30and she was thought to be strikingly good at it.
00:38:32Someone suggested one of the girl guides could be the corpse instead,
00:38:35so 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.
00:38:47I 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.
00:38:57Where were you between a quarter past four and five o'clock?
00:39:00How do you pin it down so 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.
00:39:11I 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.
00:39:22I 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 well.
00:40:08And yet you just thought you'd pay her a surprise visit?
00:40:11Hardly 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,
00:40:27I 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.
00:40:42She's a grown woman.
00:40:43Rather a helpless one, by all accounts.
00:40:45Yes, when 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...
00:40:58ornamental.
00:40:59Like a trefoil or a crockett.
00:41:00Pretty, but...
00:41:03useless.
00:41:04Backward.
00:41:06Backward?
00:41:07No.
00:41:08Cunning little minx.
00:41:12She didn't leave my boat.
00:41:13The road was closed.
00:41:15I reckon she's still on the property somewhere, sir.
00:41:17Why?
00:41:19Want me to stop her 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.
00:41:29Whatever that is.
00:41:30A 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.
00:41:43Nothing.
00:41:51A large red hat and shoes.
00:41:54No, nothing.
00:41:57You poor old乌 test.
00:41:58Leave me, loontos up in Christ.
00:42:01Lydia.
00:42:02Lydia.
00:42:02Lydia.
00:42:04Lydia.
00:42:09Lydia.
00:42:10Stand the men down.
00:42:11Uh-huh. Very 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.
00:42:28Si vous permettez, 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. D'Souza three weeks ago
00:42:44saying 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.
00:43:04Why, she couldn't actually say who D'Souza was supposed to have killed,
00:43:08or where, or why.
00:43:10You know, but don't tell me he arrives here off his yacht
00:43:12and 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, oui?
00:43:19Yes.
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,
00:43:29concealed in some foliage at the top of the garden.
00:43:30The second key was in the possession of Mrs. Oliver.
00:43:33Where's the third key?
00:43:35Ah.
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
00:43:50were firstly the person who completed the murder hunt
00:43:52and found the key, which didn't happen.
00:43:55Secondly, Mrs. Oliver, or someone to whom she gave her key,
00:43:58which she says didn't happen and Poirot was with her.
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,
00:44:08couldn't it?
00:44:08No, Sir George.
00:44:09Because when the girl heard someone to approach,
00:44:12she was to lie down and pretend to be dead.
00:44:14She was to be discovered by the person
00:44:16who had found the final clue, the key.
00:44:19Therefore, the only other people whom she could have admitted
00:44:21when they called to her from the outside
00:44:22were those people who had organised this murder hunt.
00:44:25Yourself, Lady Stubbs, Miss Brewis, Mrs. Oliver.
00:44:30Who else did Marlene know, Sir George?
00:44:32Oh, right.
00:44:34Um...
00:44:35Alec and Sally Legg.
00:44:37Michael Wayman.
00:44:39The Warburton's.
00:44:42Oh, and, er...
00:44:44Mrs. Folliard.
00:44:50Sorry.
00:45:00It is as you said to me yesterday, madame.
00:45:04A 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.
00:45:19No, sir, everyone tells to me.
00:45:21She has always had the mental age of a child.
00:45:25As you know, madame,
00:45:27such people are not always accountable for their actions.
00:45:29In a fit of rage.
00:45:32They might even kill.
00:45:34No!
00:45:36Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
00:45:38She would never have killed anyone. Never!
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 fete 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 is a lady most attractive, n'est-ce pas?
00:46:09Vivacious.
00:46:09Why?
00:46:11Is it possible 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 Brewer's
00:46:23to take jam tarts down to the girl in the boathouse?
00:46:25Goodness, all these questions.
00:46:27I remember Miss Brewer's collecting some kegs,
00:46:31but I don't recall that anyone asked her to do so.
00:46:33You 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.
00:46:53Please, 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 her 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?
00:47:14Was 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.
00:47:37Bonjour.
00:47:38Is there any sign of Lady Stubbs?
00:47:41No, I do not believe so.
00:47:43Oh, Monsieur Hendon, tell me if you please.
00:47:47For how long a time have you been here, the butler?
00:47:52Just over a 12 month, sir.
00:47:55Ah.
00:47:58Merci.
00:48:02There's an invitation from the Lord Lieutenant of the county.
00:48:05So?
00:48:07And 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?
00:48:32Utter, utter fool!
00:48:34Wouldn't I 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.
00:48:44Why, 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.
00:48:53And she's a sly, scheming, clever cat.
00:48:58You say...
00:48:59Is 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 Weyman.
00:49:10But Monsieur Weyman, he designs a tennis court.
00:49:13Tennis?
00:49:14She wouldn't know a double fork from a fruitcake.
00:49:17Weyman 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 Weyman 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, but I'd say we've some kind of psychological lunatic wandering freely in
00:49:56Devon.
00:49:57He won't be local.
00:49:58Somerset, perhaps.
00:49:59Maybe.
00:50:02I'll be there for a question if you please.
00:50:04How is it possible for a strange man to have gained access into the boat house?
00:50:11Easy.
00:50:13She came out.
00:50:14She got bored.
00:50:16Girls do, trust me.
00:50:17The most likely thing is that Moline 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.
00:50:31Well, so George Stubbs believes that his wife, she is still alive?
00:50:35Men will believe anything.
00:50:38Look, I like George Stubbs.
00:50:41He and his wife have done wonders for Nass.
00:50:43Amy Folliot has sponsored them, of course, and she has influence in the county.
00:50:49Why, there have been Folliots here since Tudor times.
00:50:52There have always been Folliots at Nass.
00:51:22On the other hand.
00:51:27So, it's bad, right?
00:51:33And just to read the book, it's absolutely not bad.
00:51:35Hattie Stubbs is a selfish man.
00:51:35And he can see her in the back of October.
00:51:35It is a free-fart.
00:51:39I am going to look at the place.
00:51:39I am going to read the book.
00:51:40He has a very handsome man.
00:51:40He has a long-rouge.
00:51:40He has a long-to-be list.
00:51:41He has a beautiful man.
00:51:42He has a beautiful man.
00:51:42He doesn't have a beautiful man.
00:51:43I don't know.
00:52:20I don't know.
00:52:49I don't know.
00:53:09I don't know.
00:53:27I don't know.
00:53:28I don't know.
00:53:33I don't know.
00:54:03I don't know.
00:54:18I don't know.
00:54:37I don't know.
00:54:46I don't know.
00:54:59I don't know.
00:55:03I don't know.
00:55:15I don't know.
00:55:18I don't know.
00:55:28I don't know.
00:55:51I don't know.
00:55:57I don't know what you mean.
00:56:02I don't know.
00:56:34I don't know.
00:56:53I don't know.
00:56:58I don't know.
00:57:01I don't know.
00:57:02I don't know.
00:57:18I don't know.
00:57:24I don't know.
00:57:28I don't know.
00:57:35I don't know.
00:57:55I don't know.
00:57:56I don't know.
00:58:12I don't know.
00:58:17I don't know.
00:58:18I don't know.
00:58:30I don't know.
00:58:36I don't know.
00:58:43I don't know.
00:58:45Do we want the ferry, sir?
00:58:48No, mercy.
00:58:49I return today to London.
00:58:51Poor fellow.
00:58:52Why must he do that?
00:58:56Because Poirot, he has failed.
00:58:58Because
00:59:01Poirot is imbecile.
00:59:47Did Hattie Stubbs ask Mademoiselle Brewis to take the jam tarts to Marlene Tucker in the boathouse?
00:59:57If not, why does she say that she did?
01:00:02Is it possible that Mademoiselle Brewis found Marlene Tucker already dead?
01:00:07In which case, why does she not report this?
01:00:09She is the woman most sensible.
01:00:11Unless she killed her, of course.
01:00:13No, pardon me.
01:00:16Why did Etienne D'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.
01:00:38Sir George does not know Etienne D'Souza, but his wife, who does know him, does not see him.
01:00:47So is it conceivable that the Etienne D'Souza, who arrives at the fete, is not the real Etienne D'Souza?
01:01:00When is his trial?
01:01:02When is his trial?
01:01:25Three weeks.
01:01:26Sir George is 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 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 Folliard.
01:01:51Well, she knows everything there is to know about Nassau, 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,
01:02:10that the world, it is a place most wicked.
01:02:14What is there that she does not know?
01:02:58Monsieur Legge?
01:03:03You are leaving Nassau's house?
01:03:08Yes, Sally's cleared out with that bastard Weyman.
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. And 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.
01:03:31You 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
01:03:38and how you are so desperate, she would never have left you for Michael Weyman.
01:03:42You don't know how right you are.
01:03:44Oui.
01:03:47I've been an absolute dummy.
01:03:48Oui.
01:03:49It's politics, eh, Poirot? It's hardly worth losing your wife for.
01:03:52No, I do not think they are, Monsieur. No.
01:03:56What should I do?
01:03:57I think what you should do, Monsieur, is to find Madame Sally,
01:04:00but immediately ask her to forgive you and beg her to come back.
01:04:02And 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
01:04:10and I'll get hold of Michael Weyman
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?
01:04:20Bon.
01:04:21Oh, thank you, my son, thank you.
01:04:38How are you, Madame?
01:04:40How are you, Madame?
01:04:42Baby, how are you doing this?
01:04:45Yes, I can't do that.
01:04:49Can you see, Monsieur?
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.
01:05:09He spends 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 Stubbs 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,
01:05:38the grounds of my ancestral home.
01:05:40Oh, je suis désolé, 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 I 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, and blood, it has been spilled.
01:06:06And here is the smell of it, the reek of it, drifting 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.
01:06:17You know a great deal, perhaps, everything about the murder.
01:06:19You know who killed a girl.
01:06:21You know why.
01:06:22You know who killed Hattie Stubbs.
01:06:23And you know, perhaps, where the body yet now lies.
01:06:26I have only my suspicions.
01:06:30And 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 the murder.
01:06:45Jamais.
01:06:51Mademoiselle, where is Monsieur Medel?
01:06:54Grandad.
01:06:56He's dead.
01:06:58Grandad?
01:07:00So Monsieur Medel was your grandfather?
01:07:06I know your grandfather, he was very old, huh?
01:07:09He 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 make-up.
01:07:35The make-up, Gertie?
01:07:36Loads of lipsticks she had and scent hidden in her nickel drawer.
01:07:41Lovely they was.
01:07:44Tell 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...
01:08:04At last, at last, Poirot, he begins to see.
01:08:17Come at once, Nass House Devon.
01:08:23Mais pourquoi?
01:08:25Because 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, c'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
01:09:03or hide your face from people you don't want to meet.
01:09:05I mean, they're just ornamental.
01:09:08Always you give to me the ideas.
01:09:13Tell to me, madame, in your murder hunt,
01:09:15you 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
01:09:30who is Yugoslavian for the victim?
01:09:32Oh, I don't know.
01:09:33All those youth hostilers, perhaps.
01:09:35All those girls in shorts.
01:09:36But, madame, I am most interested in how you write.
01:09:40You are a woman who is most sensitive.
01:09:42You 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.
01:10:00I 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.
01:10:20So 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
01:10:36to Marlene Tucker to read?
01:10:38Was 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.
01:10:51Eh, pardon.
01:10:52The comic on which that was written would have to be taken away.
01:10:56Why?
01:10:56Because immediate money points to the murderer.
01:11:00Ah, Inspector Bland, you must telephone to Scotland Yard toot Sweet.
01:11:05Why?
01:11:06Because Etienne D'Souza, he is innocent.
01:11:09No, he is a man of great wealth.
01:11:11So what?
01:11:12So...
01:11:13What is his motive?
01:11:16Let me put to you the facts.
01:11:18Facts?
01:11:18What 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 Brewis 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.
01:11:52What?
01:11:54What?
01:11:56What?
01:12:08What?
01:12:11What?
01:12:13What?
01:12:14What?
01:12:16What?
01:12:24What?
01:12:25Why 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.
01:12:52Hattie Stubbs.
01:12:53Marlene Tucker.
01:12:55And John Murdel.
01:12:57Murdel?
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, madam.
01:13:08He knew too much.
01:13:11He knew all about the Folliot 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.
01:13:32James.
01:13:33Who was so brilliant, so wild.
01:13:36James.
01:13:38Who was also to use of shaming.
01:13:42John Murdel told me of him, madam,
01:13:44and the records have been checked.
01:13:48What did he do to that young dairymaid
01:13:50when he was only, what, 14 years of age?
01:13:53You know.
01:13:54I mean.
01:13:56And where did you send him, madam?
01:14:05South Africa.
01:14:07When?
01:14:08You said you never saw him again.
01:14:12You heard that he had died in an aeroplane crash.
01:14:15You mourned.
01:14:16You said your prayers, but...
01:14:20What then has happened, madam?
01:14:23He came back.
01:14:24Why?
01:14:26Because your son, he made the pretense of his own death.
01:14:29And 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,
01:14:37you 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.
01:14:48And most moral.
01:14:51And I believe that it was from the best of your intentions
01:14:54that you did everything you could to give to your son, who was wayward,
01:14:59a 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, huh? So rich.
01:15:10She was worth a fortune.
01:15:13But you gave it out that her parents had lost all their money,
01:15:16and you were advising her to marry a 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,
01:15:34would sign whatever you put in front of her.
01:15:37And so in the end,
01:15:40Sir George Stubbs,
01:15:43the new identity assumed by your son James,
01:15:46became a man who was very rich, rich enough to buy Nass House.
01:15:52And there your plans, they ended, eh, madame?
01:15:56Your son, he was a wealthy man.
01:15:58He had his ancestral home.
01:16:00And Hattie Stubbs?
01:16:01Well, 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,
01:16:17who 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,
01:16:37all 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,
01:16:48but this Italian!
01:16:49Made up to look like Hattie, behaving as Hattie,
01:16:51but Hattie, the real Hattie,
01:16:54was 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 Folliat!
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.
01:17:22I have a headache!
01:17:24Who was herself in love with Sir George.
01:17:29But then something unforeseen occurs.
01:17:34A cousin of Hattie, Etienne de Souza,
01:17:37writes to her a telegram.
01:17:40Oh, no!
01:17:41Telling her that he is visiting England on a yachting trip.
01:17:45Is it, darling?
01:17:46I know, he would not be deceived by an imposter, huh?
01:17:50But Hattie's strange, is it not?
01:17:52That although the thought it did cross my mind
01:17:54that this Etienne de Souza may not be Etienne de Souza,
01:17:57it never occurred to Poirot
01:18:00that 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?
01:18:18Chatter to 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
01:18:30because they thought he was a little daft.
01:18:33But he told to his granddaughter, Marlene,
01:18:36that Sir George was in fact Master James.
01:18:43Hello, Marlene Tucker.
01:18:46She blackmails Sir George for her silence.
01:18:50But in so doing, she signs her death warrant.
01:18:55They arrange it so that Marlene Tucker is killed
01:18:59and Hattie Stubbs goes missing.
01:19:02In such a way, the suspicion it is thrown
01:19:05onto her cousin Etienne de Souza.
01:19:09Hence 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,
01:19:28Sir George would rejoin her in Italy,
01:19:30where they would again be married.
01:19:33All that was necessary for her now
01:19:35was to double the parts
01:19:37for a little more than a period of, what, 24 hours.
01:19:41When Hercule Poirot here arrives,
01:19:44Hattie Stubbs takes the bus to Exeter.
01:19:46Afternoon, lady.
01:19:47And travels back in the company of a youth hosteler
01:19:49she 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,
01:20:00she is here,
01:20:02back at her window.
01:20:06After dinner, she retires early to bed.
01:20:09I feel strange.
01:20:11But Mademoiselle Bruyce
01:20:13sees her to slip out of the back door.
01:20:17She spends the night in the youth hostel,
01:20:20returns to Nass for breakfast,
01:20:23after which she spends the rest of the morning
01:20:26in her room with her headache.
01:20:30She then stages her appearance
01:20:34as a trespasser.
01:20:36You can't!
01:20:37Come through here!
01:20:39Sir George shouts to her
01:20:41from the window of his wife.
01:20:43What's so Hattie?
01:20:45He turns and even pretends to speak to her inside.
01:20:49She is not there.
01:20:51No one would ever dream
01:20:53that these two women were the same person.
01:20:56And no one did.
01:20:59And so the final act of this drama,
01:21:01it is staged.
01:21:03A little before four o'clock on the day of the fate,
01:21:06Hattie Stubbs tells the Mademoiselle Bruyce
01:21:08to take the jam tarts to Marlene.
01:21:11Now, she does this because she is afraid
01:21:12that Mademoiselle Bruyce 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
01:21:20while Sally leg 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.
01:21:40for all he has found the buckle from the straw.
01:21:43And that is why the pavilion, it was not used for other murder, huh?
01:21:50She then goes down to the boathouse and calls to Marlene to let her in.
01:21:57And she strangles her.
01:22:07She 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,
01:22:19and 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
01:22:33for an Italian confidence trickster, no.
01:22:37They were looking for Hattie.
01:22:42Simple, subnormal.
01:22:46And dead.
01:22:48And this you have always known, Madame.
01:22:50Madame.
01:22:51You reveal your knowledge to me.
01:22:53When you spoke to me in the dining room on the evening of the fete,
01:22:56you reveal most clearly, although,
01:22:58Poirot, he did not see it at the time,
01:23:00that when speaking of Hattie Stubbs...
01:23:02I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says.
01:23:06You were speaking of two different people.
01:23:09Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
01:23:12She would never have killed anyone. Never!
01:23:16There remained one problem to be dealt with.
01:23:21The man who knew the truth about your son,
01:23:24John Murdel.
01:23:28His death is made to look like an accident.
01:23:32As 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 Foliat.
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,
01:24:37will you give me a few moments with my son?
01:24:39As 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.
01:25:00All right, let's bring in Sir George.
01:25:02If you're pleased to wait.
01:25:04I have allowed to Madame Foliat a few moments.
01:25:08You've no authority to do that.
01:25:12Dommage.
01:25:15It is done.
01:25:39Mother.
01:25:41And what are you doing here?
01:25:43Hmm?
01:25:48They are digging up the folly.
01:25:53You know what they will find.
01:26:05Right a good scheme.
01:26:08Almost worked.
01:26:11It was like every one of your schemes.
01:26:15It was cruel and criminal.
01:26:19And it failed.
01:26:22You have brought disgrace to the family name.
01:26:26The name of Foliat.
01:26:30Dear God.
01:26:39What am I to do?
01:26:43You will do, James.
01:26:48Exactly 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 onto them?
01:27:05Intuition, perhaps?
01:27:08No, Madame.
01:27:10The deduction.
01:27:13When old John, Mother, told to me there will always be foliats 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?
01:27:37Yes.
01:27:38All right.
01:27:39Time's up. Come on.
01:27:46Come on.
01:27:47Quick.
01:27:49Throw me through.
01:27:51Don't lose.
01:27:52Ga —
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