First broadcast 26th February 1989.
Poirot is invited at a dinner party thrown by the Mayfields, as Mrs Mayfield fears her husband might become indiscreet in the presence of Mrs Vanderlyn, a suspected foreign spy he had invited.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
John Stride as Tommy Mayfield
Carmen Du Sautoy as Mrs Vanderlyn
Ciaran Madden as Lady Mayfield
John Carson as Sir George Carrington
Phyllida Law as Lady Carrington
Guy Scantlebury as Reggie Carrington
Albert Welling as Carlile
Dan Hildebrand as Chauffeur
Phillip Manikum as Sergeant
Poirot is invited at a dinner party thrown by the Mayfields, as Mrs Mayfield fears her husband might become indiscreet in the presence of Mrs Vanderlyn, a suspected foreign spy he had invited.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
John Stride as Tommy Mayfield
Carmen Du Sautoy as Mrs Vanderlyn
Ciaran Madden as Lady Mayfield
John Carson as Sir George Carrington
Phyllida Law as Lady Carrington
Guy Scantlebury as Reggie Carrington
Albert Welling as Carlile
Dan Hildebrand as Chauffeur
Phillip Manikum as Sergeant
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00:00.
00:30Maybe Sir George.
00:46Show me.
00:47Show me.
01:00Better be good.
01:01Dumb side too good for his majesty's government if you ask me.
01:04If you expect too much the defense committee may view.
01:17So this is it at last, is it?
01:32A Mayfield Kestrel.
01:35Until we can think of a better name.
01:47Petroleum jelly Hastings.
02:06That is the secret.
02:10You rub it well in and it will prevent the cracking, yes?
02:16How do you work out cubic wachachorums?
02:20Como?
02:21Cubic thingamese.
02:22How do you work them out?
02:23I mean, this ceiling's, what, ten feet up, yes?
02:27So do you multiply ten...
02:29Hastings.
02:30I am trying to instruct you in the care of patent leather.
02:34Something that will be of use to you in later life.
02:37Well, so will cubic wach it.
02:39Suppose I had to survey something or something.
02:41You do not deceive me, Hastings.
02:43You are having these eccentric thoughts because of this girl of yours, eh?
02:47The student of architecture.
02:50Well, we never seem to have anything to talk about.
02:53I tried reading a book about Bernini.
02:56She's very keen on Bernini.
02:58I couldn't make head or tail of it.
03:00No, no, no, no, no, no, Hastings.
03:02Women do not wish to talk about Bernini and cubic thingamese.
03:06I don't know that she wants to talk about anything.
03:09She's never in when I call round to see her.
03:11I end up having tea with her mother every day.
03:14How does it compare with a Messerschmitt 109?
03:30More manoeuvrable.
03:32Got a turning circle of 800 feet. Visibility is better too.
03:36Fuel injection?
03:38No.
03:39No.
03:40Pity.
03:41PM's very keen on fuel injection.
03:42Yes, he's right.
03:43But we just haven't got a reliable system yet.
04:09There's a lady keeps telephoning, Mr. Poirot.
04:22Sacri!
04:24What a terrible circumstance.
04:26There's no need to be sarcastic, Mr. Poirot.
04:29I was going on to say that I didn't put her through to you
04:32because she wouldn't give her name.
04:34I told you you don't take anonymous phone calls.
04:37But I do, Miss Lemon.
04:39Sometimes I think anonymous telephone calls are the only ones worth taking.
04:42But how will I know where to file her if I haven't got a name?
04:47Life first, Miss Lemon. Filing second.
04:51Very well, then.
04:53Next time she calls, I'll let her talk to you.
04:58And on your own head be it.
05:01You shouldn't tease her, Poirot.
05:06She makes it irresistible.
05:10It makes it irresistible.
05:40It's like a solid wall of lead, two feet square, coming straight at you.
05:52The main spy must be tremendously strong to withstand the g-force of their turning circle.
05:56And the recoil from the guns.
05:58It's built up in layers, so the whole thing acts like a giant leaf spring.
06:07And we're still improving on it, too.
06:09But I can't go on pouring my own money into the kestrel forever.
06:13You seem not to understand the position that the defense committee is in, Mayfield.
06:18They like you. Most of them are 100% behind you.
06:21But that Japanese business nearly brought the government down.
06:24One more scandal like that...
06:25There are no more scandals like that.
06:28You're saying they don't trust me.
06:29It's not a question of trust.
06:30Yes, it is.
06:32Very well, then.
06:34If they want me to prove to them that they can trust me, that's what I'll do.
06:39How do you mean? How will you do that?
06:42I've invited Mrs. Vanderlyn down for the weekend.
06:45Mrs. Vanderlyn? You mad?
06:48You've invited her down here?
06:50And before the weekend is out, I promise you I'll have hooked Mrs. Vanderlyn, reeled her in, and gaffed her.
06:58How?
07:00By using the plans of the kestrel as a bait.
07:04You idiot. You can't go using top secret papers like that.
07:08This is madness.
07:12The
07:18The
07:22The
07:24Hercule Porras residence.
07:27Yes?
07:30What name is it, please?
07:33please. Hold on one moment please. It's your anonymous telephone caller again. She's calling
07:47herself Miss Smith this time, but it's her. Put her through, Miss Lemon. Yes, Mr Poirot.
07:55Are you there? Mr Poirot will speak to you now. Hello. Mr Poirot? Yes, Miss Smith. I need
08:06to meet you, Mr Poirot. This is a national emergency. No, no, no. I can't come there.
08:12Somewhere where nobody will know us. I'm sure that can be arranged, Mademoiselle.
08:18Where do you suggest?
08:25...
08:54Where is your Poirot?
08:58You are not Miss Smith?
09:00Yes, I am.
09:02Where is your green carnation?
09:05I wanted time to study you.
09:07Besides, green doesn't suit me.
09:09I was carrying my times?
09:12These arrangements once made should be adhered to Miss Smith.
09:25This is so difficult.
09:31My husband...
09:32Yes?
09:35My husband has invited a woman to stay this weekend at our house.
09:40No, Miss Smith, go no further.
09:43Poirot does not handle this type of work.
09:45No, no, you don't understand. This is a dangerous woman.
09:49I know that a man as distinguished in his field as you are
09:52wouldn't handle sordid domestic cases.
09:56There is more at stake here.
09:59I see.
10:04My name is not really Miss Smith.
10:07I am astounded.
10:09My name is Mayfield.
10:10Lady Margaret Mayfield.
10:12And who is Lord Mayfield?
10:14There isn't one. I'm only Mrs Mayfield really.
10:17But my father was an earl.
10:18And who is this dangerous woman you talk about?
10:25Mrs. Joanna Vanderlyn.
10:31Mrs. Vanderlyn is rumored to have pro-German sympathies.
10:35There was a scandal two years ago with young Marcus of Lowstoft.
10:39He shot himself.
10:41Yes, I remember.
10:43Mrs. Vanderlyn was involved.
10:44Yes, it was thought that he passed on to her certain secret information.
10:49I did not know that.
10:51It was kept hushed up as much as possible.
10:54His regiment had been involved in testing the Galahad town.
10:58And you think?
11:00My husband is engaged in a lot of projects that are crucial to the future of this country.
11:05If an enemy should gain access.
11:07Surely you do not suspect your husband of treachery?
11:09No, of course not.
11:12But the government has treated him very badly ever since that Japanese business.
11:18You must have read about it.
11:20Even though his name was clear, they still don't give him the backing he needs.
11:27Bitterness may make him less careful than he should be.
11:31Please help me, Monsieur Poirot.
11:33There is so much at stake for England.
11:57Good evening, Lady Carrington.
11:58Hello, Dawson.
12:00Where is everybody?
12:02On the lower terrace, Lady Carrington.
12:05We can only put our trust in the League of Nations.
12:09Pray for peace.
12:11Isn't that a rather peculiar thing for an arms manufacturer to do, sir?
12:14What is it Beverly Nichols calls you?
12:17Merchants of death.
12:19Mr. Mayfield is an armaments manufacturer, Reggie,
12:21because this particular game can only be played from strength.
12:24Quite right, Sir George.
12:26Oh, sorry, Dad.
12:28Didn't realize it was all a game.
12:31Where has the fabled Mrs. Vanderling got to, I wonder?
12:35Having the foggiest. She arrived hours ago.
12:38You've met her before?
12:40Not since I was a child.
12:42Please.
12:44Yeah, she's the daughter of H.K. Griffin.
12:46Man used to the American ambassador over here.
12:48Apparently, we all have to be very nice to the Americans these days.
12:50Ready for when the war starts.
12:54Huh?
12:56Mother's finally arrived.
12:58All these exciting people.
13:00I wasn't warned it was going to be a rout.
13:02Isabel, I'm so glad you could come.
13:03I'm just sorry I'm so unforgivably late.
13:05Will I be completely detroit if I don't change?
13:07You'll be the talk of Steeplebomstead.
13:09Oh, God, I wouldn't want that.
13:11Good journey, darling.
13:12Lovely, George.
13:13The A-11 is particularly enthralling at this time of year.
13:15Hello, Tommy.
13:17May I introduce Monsieur Hercout Poirot?
13:19How nice to meet you.
13:21Foreign, yes.
13:23You'll soon pick up our little ways.
13:25Oh, I'm so glad you could come.
13:27All these exciting people.
13:28Oh, how English.
13:30How very, very English.
13:34We've got some very American dry martinis mixed, if you'd like one.
13:37Oh, that would be wonderful.
13:58Oh, that would be wonderful.
13:59No, no, no, no, no.
14:00No, no.
14:01No, no, no, no, no.
14:02No, no, no, no, no.
14:05No, no, no, no, no, no.
14:08The trouble with the foreign offices is very long on protocol and whether the
14:30Prime Minister of Timbuktu should take presidents over the King of Ungobongo.
14:35I'm very short on what Winnie describes as intestinal fortitude.
14:41I'm sure that's not true of your foreign secretary.
14:44I must bow to your superior knowledge, Mrs. Vanderlyn.
14:49I'm sure you know Mr. Eden a great deal better than us humble selves, eh?
14:54I wouldn't say that.
14:55But when I had lunch with him yesterday, he was saying more or less the same as you about
14:59the foreign office's passion for protocol.
15:03No, thank you.
15:10I refuse to let men waste their time drinking pork in this bridge to be played.
15:17Sir George?
15:22You see what sort of a woman she is?
15:25The sort of woman Mrs. Vanderlyn needs does not make a matter of national importance.
15:29I do hope you're right.
15:31Mr. Poirot.
15:38Actually, the whole European situation is rather like a bridge game at the moment.
15:46On the one hand we have the diminutive Führer, on the other hand Signior Mussolini, the bullfrog
15:53of the Pontine Marshes.
15:55In the end they'll both need taking down a peg or two.
15:59And what about the Emperor Hirohito, sir?
16:02Will he need taking down a peg?
16:04What did he say?
16:05Yes, he said something nasty again.
16:06He's such a little snot, aren't you, darling?
16:11Tommy's working too hard.
16:16He believes we're on the brink of war.
16:18And that he can stop it single-handed?
16:20Something like that.
16:21The truth is, of course, he can do more than most people.
16:26Little slam, I think.
16:28Congratulations, Potter.
16:29Aren't you going to give us our reverber?
16:30No, George and I have work to do, I'm afraid.
16:31The plan's ready for you, sir.
16:32We'll join you in a minute.
16:33Come along, George, if you'll excuse us.
16:34Well, I will take a promenade in the garden before turning in.
16:50It will clear my brain.
16:55We might have done that before we played cards.
17:00Madame is too agreeable.
17:03Good night.
17:25There you are, my friend.
17:50Why can't I stay at the house?
17:51That's what I want to know.
17:53Number one, Hastings, you are not invited.
17:55A pure oversight.
17:57Number two, I need you at this stage incognito and very nearby.
18:02Well, my incognito's gone for a start.
18:05Why? Why is this?
18:06Well, the pub's so crowded, I'm having to share a room.
18:09And you'll never guess who with.
18:11No, Hastings, I will not.
18:13Jap.
18:14With the Chief Inspector Jap?
18:17And the room has only got one bed.
18:20I wonder why the Chief Inspector Jap is here.
18:23You're not very sympathetic.
18:25We all have our troubles, Hastings.
18:27I would rather share a bed with the Chief Inspector Jap and three of his sergeants
18:31than to be partnered at a bridge with the Lady Carrington.
18:34Yes, I've been hearing about her from the chauffeur.
18:37Apparently, Sir George is trying to get her to give up cards altogether.
18:40Yes, well, I'm very pleased to hear it, mon ami.
18:42She plays abominably.
18:44No, but she loses a lot of money at it.
18:46She's heavily in hock to moneylenders.
18:48Really?
18:51Hastings, try to find out for me, if you please,
18:56who asked the Chief Inspector to be here?
18:59That is most interesting.
19:20Good luck, Monty.
19:21Good luck, Monty.
19:26Good luck.
19:43What do you think of this idea of detecting aircraft by radio echoes?
19:47RDF?
19:48Feasible.
19:49We put a certain amount of money into research.
19:51How much money?
19:53Not gonna tell you that.
19:56Oh, hello.
19:57I just came in to fetch my bag.
20:00Don't mind us.
20:01Good night again.
20:02Good night.
20:03Having that woman here is a mistake, Mayfield.
20:08No matter what your intentions are, do you no good.
20:12Do me a great deal of good when I get her put into Holloway prison.
20:16It's all nonsense.
20:17All this talk of trapping her.
20:18What was that?
20:19What?
20:20Someone ran across the terrace there.
20:23I didn't see anything.
20:25Anyway, how do you intend to travel?
20:27Sure I saw something.
20:29Why do politicians treat everyone else like idiots?
20:34Probably because they voted for us in the first place.
20:38I have laid everything out on the desk, sir.
20:50Will you want me any more tonight?
20:52Er, no.
20:53We'll probably be late.
20:54You might as well turn in.
20:55I'll lock these away myself.
20:56Right.
20:57Good night, Mr. Mayfield.
20:58Sir George.
20:59Just a minute.
21:00You've forgotten the most important paper.
21:01I don't think so, sir.
21:02Sheet number three.
21:03The mathematics for the aluminium stressing.
21:04I put it on the top.
21:05It isn't here.
21:06I don't understand.
21:07I put it here.
21:08I know I do.
21:09No, you must have made a mistake.
21:10It must still be in the safe.
21:11No, I put it there.
21:14I looked for it potentially.
21:15No, you can't do it.
21:16You must have made a mistake.
21:17There must still be in the safe.
21:19No, I put it really on the surface of the talisman.
21:22There must be a total.
21:23You must have made a mistake.
21:25It must be enough to go into the safe.
21:26You need to go into this wrong.
21:27I put it on the top.
21:28Well, I put it on the top.
21:30It isn't here.
21:31I don't understand.
21:32I put it here.
21:33I know I do.
21:34You must have made a mistake.
21:35It must still be in the safe.
21:36No, I put it there.
21:39I looked for it particularly and put it on the top.
21:42What do you mean to tell me it's gone?
21:46Who's been in this room?
21:48No one at all.
21:49Well, it can't just have vanished into thin air. Someone must have taken it.
21:53Can Poirot be our assistance?
21:59Finding the lost property is something of a profession of mine.
22:06What is missing?
22:07This is a matter of national security.
22:10I think we should alert Inspector Jap. Telephone him with the three crowds, would you, Mr. Carlisle?
22:19Where does that door lead?
22:28Well done.
22:29This wasn't meant to happen.
22:32But it was. You said that...
22:34Not like this.
22:36She's turned the tables on us.
22:40Oh, my God, I knew it.
22:44I knew it.
22:45I told you not to play with fire. What am I going to tell the PM?
22:51Nothing for the moment. You mustn't panic.
22:54I'm damned if that woman's going to get away with it.
22:56Mr. Mayfield, forgive me. I do not wish to delve into the secrets. But please, can you give me some idea of what is on the paper?
23:14I don't know how closely you follow international events, Mr. Poirot, but Germany has just announced that she has parity with this country in the air.
23:26And so I understand.
23:27Well, what that means is that that piece of paper is perhaps our only chance of keeping our civilian population safe from aerial attack. Am I exaggerating?
23:38Not a job.
23:40So, the technical breakthrough, huh? And worth a considerable amount of money.
23:45Oh, money doesn't enter into it.
23:47Well, it might be some people, and in certain quarters.
23:52Traders, you mean?
23:54Indeed.
23:56But anyone, me included, could knock on the door of the German embassy, and when I come out, I could be a rich man if I had these papers?
24:05Certainly.
24:06Mr. Carlisle, before I went for my promenade in the garden, you volunteered to get the papers ready in here?
24:17Yes.
24:18And shortly after that, everyone else went upstairs to prepare for the bed?
24:22I presume so. I don't know.
24:24Yes, they did.
24:28Mrs. Vanderlyn came down again.
24:30Indeed?
24:31That's right. She'd forgotten her bag.
24:33Huh? The old gasp, huh? No, no, pardon. The old wheeze. To return for something you say you have forgotten.
24:43Quite.
24:45Mr. Carlisle, after you had opened the safe and got out the papers, did you leave the study again, even for a moment?
24:57No, not for a second.
24:58So, everyone else was upstairs preparing for the bed, except Mrs. Vanderlyn, who came down for her bag, and yet the plans are stolen.
25:09Mr. Carlisle, do you still want to say you did not leave the study?
25:19I don't know what all this is about, Poirot.
25:22Carlisle has been my confidential secretary for nine years.
25:26He has access to all my private papers. He could have made a copy of that sheet any time he liked, with no one being any the wiser.
25:35Why would he need to stage a rather clumsy robbery?
25:38Thank you, Mr. Mayfield. If Monsieur Poirot has any suspicions, I should like all my belongings searched.
25:45No, no, no, no, no, no. Monsieur Carlisle, I cast not the aspersions.
25:49It is a small problem merely, but a problem that will agitate the little grey cells most adequately.
26:00With Carlisle on guard all the time, I don't see how anyone could get into that room.
26:10Yes, but it is no use running to conclusions, Monsieur Mayfield.
26:13It was from there that you saw Mrs. Vanderlyn in here.
26:17A little further back, I think.
26:21From where I was in the garden, I could see that the dining room was in darkness.
26:25But it would have been quite possible for someone to use those doors to get out onto the terrace and from there into the study.
26:38I told you I thought I saw something.
26:41I told you did.
26:43There, across the lawn to a waiting car. He'll be miles away by now.
26:48No, no, no, no, no, no. The one way through the garden would have taken him directly past me.
26:52Uh, what's going on?
26:56Get back to bed, Bridget.
27:02So, an interesting situation.
27:04The only person who could possibly have stolen those most important papers is one of us.
27:11Or Mrs. Vanderlyn.
27:22Here, Mr. Mayfield, Sir George, Poirot. What's all this, then, about a theft?
27:28A very important secret paper has been stolen from my study, Chief Inspector.
27:33Right, lads, fan out.
27:34Whittaker, take the north end of the house.
27:36Dobson, the upstairs landing. Beals, the servants' quarters.
27:40Uh, it is not perhaps as simple as that, mon ami.
27:44Whoever stole this paper will not leave it lying around where we will find it.
27:47Leave this to the professionals, Poirot. Missing documents are an everyday occurrence to my lads.
27:53I'll bet.
27:55And who might you be?
27:57His son.
27:58Thought I told you to go to bed!
28:00Sorry, Chief Inspector.
28:02It's all perfectly simple, really.
28:04You see, we know who stole those papers.
28:07Indeed.
28:08Uh, George, I don't think we should...
28:10A guest in this house.
28:11A Mrs. Vanderlyn.
28:13Really?
28:14Oh, well...
28:15So I suggest we get straight up there and...
28:17Pardon me for asking, sir, but how precisely do we know this, Mrs., um...
28:22Vanderlyn.
28:24Can't go into details now. A matter of national security.
28:27All you've got to do...
28:28George!
28:29I don't know that this is the right idea.
28:31Sorry, Mayfield.
28:32I know it's your house and all that sort of thing, but it's my pigeon now.
28:35Come on, chap!
28:38Come on.
28:55Mrs. Vanderlyn.
28:56What is it?
28:57This is Sir George Carrington. I have the police with me.
29:08What do you want?
29:13I'd like you to get dressed, Mrs. Vanderlyn, and accompany me to the local police station.
29:18What are you talking about?
29:19If you just get dressed, madam.
29:21Damned if I will! What for?
29:24Some papers have been stolen from Mr. Mayfield's study, Mrs. Vanderlyn.
29:27And?
29:29If you could just get dressed, Mrs. Vanderlyn.
29:31I'll get dressed.
29:34Did you plan this, Mr. Mayfield?
29:44I'll get dressed.
29:45If I could just go into house, I'll get dressed...
30:00He'll leave a sun and call his shoulder...
30:03Helen.
30:06Father...
30:08You're joining us at the station, Mr. Mayfield?
30:38Must be here. Must be.
30:43Where's she hidden it, Poirot? You're used to this sort of thing.
30:50She's got it with her. That's what it is.
30:52They'll find it when they search her.
31:08Let's imagine you're a woman, Poirot.
31:20By all means, Sir George, if it will help you.
31:23Right. You're a woman. You're in a strange household.
31:26You steal some papers. Where do you hide them?
31:29Sir George, there is one thing in all this that I do not understand.
31:33Sure.
31:35I've demonstrated quite cautiously, I think,
31:38that of all the people in the house,
31:40only you, Mr. Mayfield, Mr. Kalal, and myself
31:44could possibly have stolen those papers, yes?
31:47Right.
31:48And yet you go on talking as if Mrs. Vandalin was without doubt the miscreant.
31:52Hmm. What? Oh, yes.
31:56Well, that sort of thing's all very well, I'm sure,
31:59but we're in theory, isn't it?
32:02We're practical folk here, Poirot.
32:07Yes.
32:25Nothing, sir.
32:32Nothing.
32:39No.
32:41No.
32:44No.
32:45No.
32:51No, no, no.
32:52it's not in her wrong she hasn't got it on her either this is a disaster Mayfield she must
33:13have hidden it somewhere to collect it later Froggy thinks she didn't do it
33:17Froggy knows she didn't do it
33:47anywhere you see the dust being disturbed let me know just one sheet of paper we're looking for
34:01remember could be anywhere
34:17let's get rid of that
34:24poor old my dear fellow I promise you you've never had anything like it
34:47you know those boots he wears bang the other one crash when he finally gets into
34:54bed it's worse worse he talks in his sleep now I've got you young fellow me lad jab of
34:59the yard strikes again I thought I'd go mad every time I managed to drop off he
35:04starts shouting stand back lads he's got a blamange some of the things he was saying
35:09enough to make a cat laugh I can't take much more of it Poirot I've been through
35:13three days of a Jerry barrage where's he now gone back up to the house by the way I
35:22found out who asked him down it was Sir George not monsieur Mayfield apparently
35:29not oh just as I thought what happened about mrs. Vanderlyn no she's leaving this
35:37morning in a great um huff yes in fact the whole house is quite deserted lady
35:42Carrington and Reggie left after breakfast Hastings I want to ask you
35:47something ask away last night at dinner one of the guests said something to
35:53monsieur Mayfield about Japan what is it about Japan Hastings well this is a few
36:00years back when the Japs took it into their head to invade Manchuria the press got
36:04hold of something about Mayfield's company supplying them with the howitzers
36:07they were bombarding Shanghai with turns out eventually that the press had got
36:12hold of the wrong end of the stick as per usual but by that time there'd been
36:15questions in Parliament and God knows what and a lot of the mud stuck
36:23Hastings I must go back to the house give me half a second I'll drive you I want to
36:28change the plugs this morning anyway I thought I'd do it up there no no I need to walk and to think
36:58missus Vanderlyn you left this man thank you
37:25deprecius for her will you she'll only forget
37:55Oh, my God.
38:25Yeah, she's definitely running rich.
38:26Yeah, let's have a look at the curb.
38:28Hastings! Hastings!
38:32Hastings, no more of the tinkering.
38:33We have to follow Mrs. Wanderlaine.
38:35But I've got the plugs out. It'll take me an hour to get them back.
38:37Oh, no, my dude!
38:41Yeah, Hastings. Allons-y.
38:49Hey!
38:55I'm assuming they're heading for the London Road.
39:00Oh, my God.
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41:05Hold tight.
41:27We're on that road there.
41:29Wicken Bonham, Clavering, Brent Pellham.
41:35No.
41:36Mean anything to you?
41:38No.
41:39Perhaps where they're going is not the main road.
41:42Look at the villages on either side of the road.
41:49Hell Street, Buttingford, Winkling, Stocking Pellham, Rocky,
41:58No.
42:01The fellow I knew at the front had a place that's rocking.
42:04Right next door to the German ambassador's country house.
42:08Hastings.
42:11Oh, my God.
42:13Can we get there before them?
42:15We can have a damn good try.
42:17Where is it?
42:24I don't know.
42:26It was on the salver in the hall.
42:29Dawson put it there.
42:30It seems just to have disappeared.
42:32Oh, that can nothing go right.
42:36Yeah, sorry.
42:37What?
42:38No, I can't.
42:39Therine?
42:42I can't.
42:43What?!
42:44I can't-
42:49Oh, God.
42:51It was alone.
42:52It was like a gasp.
42:53Yeah?
42:54Oh, God.
42:55Yes,ine?
42:56Yeah.
42:58It was.
42:59Oh, God.
43:00Yeah?
43:01Oh, God.
43:02Good.
43:32God, Poirot.
43:34Yes, Hastings, we have seen enough.
43:38Come, my friend.
43:50I wouldn't have thought she'd have hidden them there, sir.
43:52Have you got any better suggestions, Costor?
43:54No, sir.
43:57Poirot!
43:58You have to trust me, Margaret.
44:05I do trust you, Tommy.
44:09Everything you've worked for is at stake, though.
44:12It'll be all right.
44:16Who is it?
44:20Bonjour.
44:23What do you want, Mr Poirot?
44:24I have come back to tell you that the plans have been safely delivered.
44:29Delivered.
44:30To the German ambassador.
44:31I'm sure Herr von Eckensdorff was very pleased.
44:35Tommy, what are we going to do?
44:36Also, Lady Margaret, I found this from one of your guests.
44:39It needed to be posted.
44:40Give me that!
44:41I don't want to read it.
44:45The address is probably a little cigarette shop or a newsagent, Monsieur Mayfield?
44:52From which you can collect it at your leisure?
44:54No need to go into that, Mr Poirot.
44:56Let's sleeping dogs lie.
44:57No, no, no, no, Monsieur Mayfield.
44:58Between the husband and the wife, they should be not the sleepy dogs.
45:02I have no wish to read a letter belonging to one of my guests.
45:06Really?
45:07Suppose I tell you that this was written by Mrs Vandalin and that I could guarantee that you would not understand one word of it.
45:16They're in Chinese.
45:17Japanese.
45:18But Tom's signature's at the bottom.
45:19This is the one piece of evidence that links your husband to the salesperson.
45:20to the sales of arms to the Japanese.
45:21Somehow they had found it.
45:22They're in Chinese.
45:23Japanese.
45:24But Tom's signature's at the bottom.
45:27This is the one piece of evidence that links your husband to the sales of arms to the Japanese.
45:35Somehow they had fallen into the hands of the Germans.
45:38It was these two pieces of paper that Mrs Vandalin used to blackmail him.
45:42She said, however, she would exchange them for the plans of the Kestrel.
45:47Oh, Tom.
45:48If he was seen to hand over those plans to Mrs Vandalin, he would be ruined anyway.
45:53So it had to look as if somebody had stolen them.
45:56And although he tried to persuade us that he saw this mysterious figure on the terrace,
46:01he was the one piece of paper that Mrs Vandalin used to blackmail him.
46:04It was these two pieces of paper that Mrs Vandalin used to blackmail him.
46:07She said, however, she would exchange them for the plans of the Kestrel.
46:10Oh, Tom.
46:11If he was seen to hand over those plans to Mrs Vandalin, he would be ruined anyway.
46:14So it had to look as if somebody had stolen them.
46:17There was a figure on the terrace.
46:19It was Monsieur Mayfield himself who stole those plans.
46:21It was the safest way.
46:24And they were securely in his pocket throughout the whole farce of Mrs Vandalin's arrest.
46:30And you keep saying everything's going to be all right.
46:33It will, darling, you...
46:34Let me pass.
46:35Let me pass.
46:36Sir George.
46:37I've had enough of this, Mayfield.
46:38What's going on?
46:39I've been kept totally in the dark.
46:41No, no, no, no, Sir George.
46:43The Germans have got the missing papers.
46:46What?
46:47And you, Monsieur Carlyle?
46:49I imagine you know this as well as anyone.
46:56The German High Command now has plans of our new fighter.
47:00On which they'll have to waste six months of concentrated effort before they realize they've been sold a pup.
47:06Pup?
47:07What's a pup?
47:08The little dog, Sir George.
47:09Little dog?
47:10Oh, pup!
47:11Sold a pup!
47:12The plans were doctored.
47:13The maths doesn't make any sense.
47:14But it'll take them a lot of work to find that out.
47:16Good God!
47:17You cunning old devil.
47:18Tommy.
47:19Tommy.
47:20Tommy.
47:21Tommy.
47:22Tommy.
47:23Tommy.
47:24Tommy.
47:25Tommy.
47:26Tommy.
47:27Tommy.
47:28Tommy.
47:29Oh, oh, oh.
47:30Oh, oh.
47:31Oh, okay.
47:32I'll see you now.
47:33Oh.
47:34Oh, oh.
47:35Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, uh, there's no mystery.
47:36Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
47:38No.
47:39Yeah, no.
47:40I'll see you next time, dear.
47:41Tommy Tarny.
47:59Goes against the grain letting that vandalin woman go scot-free.
48:03She will pay eventually mon ami.
48:05For the moment let her enjoy what she thinks is her triumph.
48:09If you ask me, it just shows the dangers of meeting anonymous women at the zoo.
48:13In you go, chap.
48:14Lady Margaret got what she wanted anyway.
48:16Her and Mayfield are all lovey-dovey again.
48:22Must be depressing for you when that sort of thing happens, eh, Poirot?
48:25What sort of thing?
48:27Well, everything working out for the best.
48:29Some married couple ready for a second honeymoon.
48:32Orphaned children reunited with their parents.
48:35Yes, it is hard.
48:37But we must put on it a brave face, huh?
48:41And not allow cheerfulness to keep breaking through.
48:47Drive on, Hastings.
48:49to keep the house.
48:50To keep the vandalin rooms...
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49:05You