- 5/13/2025
Joan Hickson | Agatha Christie Classic Mystery
In Part 2 of A Pocket Full of Rye, Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) continues to unravel the chilling series of murders linked to a children's rhyme. As secrets are unearthed and motives exposed, the truth behind the deaths begins to surface—revealing a shocking killer hiding in plain sight. This gripping conclusion to Agatha Christie’s beloved mystery keeps viewers guessing until the final moments. A must-watch for fans of vintage British crime dramas.
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In Part 2 of A Pocket Full of Rye, Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) continues to unravel the chilling series of murders linked to a children's rhyme. As secrets are unearthed and motives exposed, the truth behind the deaths begins to surface—revealing a shocking killer hiding in plain sight. This gripping conclusion to Agatha Christie’s beloved mystery keeps viewers guessing until the final moments. A must-watch for fans of vintage British crime dramas.
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01:00Oh, Mr. Dyle.
01:03Oh, my God.
01:30Now, remember to lock up, Daisy, and don't forget the pantry window.
01:45Good night, ma'am.
01:46Thank you, Rich.
01:48Directly, ma'am.
01:49Excuse me, sir.
02:02What is it?
02:03It's the gates, sir.
02:04The perimeter, generally.
02:05Swarming with press.
02:06I don't recommend shaking the trees.
02:07You'd have photographers dropping around you like ripe plums.
02:09Get onto the local station.
02:11Tell them I want some extra men fast.
02:12What did the doc say, sir?
02:14Another poisoning.
02:16Cyanide this time.
02:17And a tea.
02:18Instantaneous.
02:21Ah, Miss Dove.
02:23Good.
02:24Are you all right?
02:38Yes.
02:40It was you that found her, wasn't it?
02:43Yes.
02:48Drew, sit down.
02:49I want you to tell me what happened.
03:03Help you go.
03:04I'm only trying to do the job, you know.
03:05Come on.
03:06Help you go.
03:06Never mind, sir.
03:09Officer.
03:09Officer.
03:10Have you got something for you?
03:11Don't talk less.
03:13End lady.
03:14If you do not respect the integrity of this property, then we shall make arrests.
03:17There'll be no other warning.
03:19Yes, Bishop.
03:20I can only repeat.
03:22There is no evidence as yet to confirm that Mrs Fortescue's death is connected with that
03:26of her husband yesterday.
03:28I'll keep you in touch with all developments.
03:29Now, gentlemen, please.
03:36Relative of a family, is it, madam?
03:38Well, not exactly.
03:40No, it's the maid Gladys I'm connected with.
03:42I see.
03:43Well, only relatives are allowed, madam, and they're to be vetted.
03:44But it's very important.
03:47Her name is Gladys.
03:48I, uh...
03:49Well, I understand from the papers that Inspector Neal is in charge of the case.
03:53Now, could you get a message to him?
03:55Yes, madam.
03:56Well, will you tell...
03:57Now, this is very important.
03:59No, I tell you what.
04:00No.
04:00I'll, I'll, I'll write it.
04:02I'll, uh...
04:02I'll write him a note.
04:04Yes, madam.
04:05Yes.
04:11Yes.
04:12Sorry, sir.
04:13Someone just arrived at the gate.
04:15A Miss Marple.
04:16Going on about the maid Gladys, sir.
04:19So?
04:21Says she wants to be let in, sir.
04:22For God's sake.
04:24Fair enough.
04:25Good.
04:26Thought I was to give you this, sir.
04:27The old lady was most insistent.
04:28So, you ordered tea for 4.30, and then you went upstairs.
04:39What time did you come downstairs again?
04:42Tea time.
04:44When I got onto the landing, I don't know why, something in the garden caught my attention.
04:49You Trelodge?
05:10Yes.
05:10Yes, it is.
05:13Oh, no.
05:16Yes.
05:16You know, please stay out of the way.
05:19Believe me.
05:20Excuse me.
05:20You'll take that.
05:22Oh.
05:28Who was it, Gladys?
05:31Grunt member, Miss Dove.
05:33Is tea ready?
05:34Mr. Lance will be here any minute.
05:36Yes, Miss Dove.
05:37As I was spared any further matrimonial warfare between Percival and poor Jennifer, I went back
05:51to sort out the guest room, before coming down again to clear the table for the tea tray.
05:56Gladys still hadn't arrived.
05:58Adele was getting impatient.
06:00Where is everyone this afternoon?
06:02Where's Jennifer?
06:03I think she's, uh, she and Mr. Percival had a disagreement.
06:08What a surprise.
06:11Rex has left her 40 grand, did you know?
06:13I expect you do.
06:16Anyway, Percy is registering his displeasure.
06:19A wife with independent means.
06:23Anyway, go and fetch her.
06:25There's a duck, Miss Dove, will you?
06:26I've got to teach her to stand up to that husband of hers.
06:31Mind you, how do you stand up to a glass of cold water?
06:38Oh, uh, Mrs. Fortescue is expecting you, Mrs. Percival.
06:41Thank you, Miss Dove.
06:42Thank you, Miss Dove.
06:44Oh, Gladys.
06:59Why Gladys had suddenly abandoned the tea tray, I can't imagine.
07:03I've no doubt I'll be treated to a string of lame excuses later on.
07:06Hello.
07:07Don't tell me.
07:09You must be the excellent Miss Dove.
07:12Yes, I am the excellent Miss Dove.
07:15You must be Mr. Fortescue.
07:16Do you have any more luggage?
07:18Just this.
07:19Here.
07:20Oh, really?
07:21There's no need.
07:21This was heading for the drawing room, I believe.
07:29Mrs. Fortescue and Mrs. Fortescue, what a pleasure.
07:32I come bearing gifts.
07:34The Thua Gras sandwiches, I must say, are spectacularly absent,
07:37but we have bread, we have honey, we have fondance and fancies.
07:40We'll manage, I dare say.
07:41Oh, lads, it is good to see you.
07:45And you must be my beautiful stepmother, Adele.
07:53And after tea, Fortescue left the room first?
07:58Yes, Lance left first.
08:00I gather he went up to see Miss Henderson, his aunt.
08:03I heard Mrs. Percival leave almost immediately.
08:07So Mrs. Fortescue was left alone?
08:11Presumably.
08:13And the man in the garden?
08:14Well, I assume that must have been Lance Fortescue.
08:18No, no, it couldn't have been.
08:20His train was left, didn't arrive till 4.34.
08:22It's five minutes by taxi, at least, from the station.
08:27Tell me, the person you heard moving about upstairs...
08:32I'm almost certain it was Adele's room.
08:35Quite honestly, it sounded like a man.
08:37Oh, dear, oh, dear.
08:40Well, my only poor consolation, and it is a very poor one,
08:43I'm almost certainly too late anyway.
08:44So, you'll be leaving now, ma'am, will you?
08:48Oh, no, no, no, no, certainly not.
09:02Come in.
09:05Hello, Percival.
09:07Still swatting.
09:14I wish I had something to take my mind off this horrible business.
09:24I think you're ever going to serve supper.
09:26Oh, I expect so.
09:30By the way, Pat has insisted on coming down tonight.
09:33Is that all right?
09:35I hope you don't mind.
09:37It's your house now, isn't it?
09:40Of course your wife's welcome.
09:42Thanks.
09:43There.
09:46We are being civil to each other, at least.
09:52That's where we are.
10:04Well, that old pussy outside the gate won't.
10:07Oh, God, nice.
10:08Nice.
10:13Sing a song of sixpence.
10:19What's that supposed to mean?
10:23I think the old girl's got an attic to rent, frankly.
10:25Ah.
10:41Mrs. Adele Fortescue.
10:43Love letters.
10:44Scented or steamy?
10:56Always in my thoughts, Vivian.
11:00Dubois.
11:01That's what he was after.
11:03Dubois.
11:04A man in the garden.
11:07What a gold rush.
11:08No.
11:09That's what I've said.
11:19Another 16pence.
11:23Good.
11:27That's what we've seen.
11:29That's what we've seen.
11:34What?
11:35where's the missus at she won't be a minute she's just remember the washing
12:05who are you talking about
12:31oh gladys oh gladys oh no she's not gladys mrs crump what are you saying i put a clothes bag on her
12:44hey have you gotten a note from the old lady
13:03her mane was in the garden hanging out the clothes
13:14along came a blackbird and pecked off her nose
13:18the murderer rising in the light killeth the poor and needy
13:37and in the night is as a thief
13:41where a testament is there must also of necessity
13:51be the death of the testator
13:54yes
13:56poor gladys
13:59i trained her you know
14:03do you want us to put you into a hotel madam nonsense she'll be staying here
14:08that's most kind of you
14:11there you are miss barb
14:17oh thank you very much
14:19gladys came to me from the orphanage
14:27she was very keen on men poor gal but i'm afraid men didn't take much notice of her
14:31and the other girls who rather made use of her
14:35she enjoyed going to the cinema and she was always dreaming
14:40things that couldn't possibly happen to her
14:43a poor girl had obviously seen something
14:48or noticed something
14:49i feel to blame
14:52makes me very very angry you know
14:55especially that business of the clothes peg
14:58took cruel and contemptuous gesture
15:01you understood the significance of the nursery rhyme inspector did you
15:05in its broad outline
15:07eventually
15:08rex meaning king
15:11in his counting house
15:13by extension of course
15:15his wife becomes the queen
15:17the queen was in the parlour
15:19was she eating bread and honey
15:21i don't know
15:26the poor maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes
15:30you see the first verse is the difficulty
15:34we have the pocket full of rye
15:36but i don't understand the blackbirds
15:38i can see no point in them
15:40however
15:41they must mean something don't you think
15:43the birds began to see
15:47honey miss marple
15:50at tea time
15:52come to think of it
15:54no
15:54there's usually some savoury sandwiches
15:57occasionally bread and jam
15:59then some cake
16:00and biscuits only when mrs crump has been baking
16:03no
16:05i think it's the only time we'd had honey
16:07that's very interesting
16:09thank you miss dahl
16:11i've cleared adele's desk sir
16:20who benefits
16:21that is a question
16:24from killing gladys
16:27nobody as far as i can see
16:29rex
16:31well adele was going to get
16:33a hundred thousand pounds from his will
16:35but
16:36who else
16:38percival gets most of the estate
16:41things were going wrong with the business
16:43and it looks as if the old man was responsible
16:46yep
16:48percival benefits
16:50and his missus
16:52yeah
16:53not too keen on her husband
16:55stands to get forty thousand pounds in her own right
16:57that would buy her freedom from her purse
17:00she benefits
17:00lance fortescue
17:02he gets twenty percent of the residue
17:04which may not be all that much
17:07when all's said and done
17:07besides he was out of the country
17:11when the first murder took place
17:13dubois
17:14certainly
17:16if he knew adele was going to get a hundred thousand pounds
17:19he's not exactly discreet
17:21he must have known
17:22he benefits from killing rex
17:25but where's the benefit
17:28in killing the lovely adele
17:30did she leave a will
17:33did you find anything in that lot
17:34no sir
17:35it's dancel and warrell's
17:38just off the high street
17:39adele didn't trust the family solicitor
17:44i don't blame her
17:45bloody billings beers in percy's pocket
17:47do you happen to know
17:50what was in
17:51mrs fortescue's will madam
17:53well if i were you
17:55i'd try the dormy house hotel
17:58or the golf club
18:00listen does anybody fancy a nightcap
18:04oh or i'd be boring then
18:23i suppose it had been going on for
18:42oh over a year anyway
18:44then
18:46last summer someone scooped out the inside of one of mrs crump's raised pies
18:52and stuffed it with dead birds
18:54and they were blackbirds too were they
18:56i suppose so
18:58it was quite revolting
19:00nobody was particularly concerned to establish the species
19:03wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king
19:07yes
19:08oh good morning mr fortescue
19:11told me house hotel
19:19i were in one
19:21you left the hotel
19:22about
19:233.30
19:24and you returned
19:26about
19:26five
19:27yes
19:28and your route
19:30took you nowhere near
19:31eutree lodge
19:33as i told you
19:35i went across the heath
19:37round by the sand pits
19:39and back through cursen woods
19:41as you told us
19:43and you take this walk for your pleasure
19:47yes
19:47i wanted to think
19:48about mrs fortescue
19:50what was your relationship with mrs fortescue
19:54we were friends
19:57friends
19:58she led me to believe that she was quite fond of me
20:06i liked her but
20:09she was married
20:11you didn't see much future for the affair
20:13no
20:14quite frankly i didn't
20:16so it was an affair we're talking about
20:19tell me mr dubois
20:27what did you mean when you wrote
20:30when things are different
20:33all this will seem very small and far away
20:37where the hell did you get that
20:38what things would be different
20:40you wrote this two weeks ago
20:43presumably you can remember
20:44quite frankly
20:49it suggests to me
20:51a future without mr fortescue
20:53and that means one of two things
20:56either mrs fortescue will leave her husband
20:58or her husband will somehow depart from the scene
21:01wouldn't you agree
21:03and you can't build up a case against me inspector
21:06she made a will you know
21:09left you all her money
21:11everything she possessed
21:14i don't want the money
21:15i didn't want a penny of it
21:17of course
21:18isn't very much
21:19jewellery
21:20a few furs
21:21i imagine
21:22very little cash at all
21:24but i thought her husband
21:25did you mr dubois
21:29that's very interesting
21:31i wondered if you knew the terms of rex fortescue's will
21:36oh
21:43oh inspector
21:44uh yes miss mark
21:46blackbirds
21:47yes ma'am
21:49you are interested in blackbirds i take it
21:52well i'm more interested in
21:55mr dubois at present
21:57oh dear me no
21:58no do forgive me inspector
22:00but you must get to the bottom of this blackbird business
22:02rex fortescue was the victim of a series of disgusting practical jokes
22:07someone put dead blackbirds
22:09some of them quite decayed
22:12well on his desk or on his pillow where they could
22:15so you see the blackbirds must mean something
22:18do you know they even put some in a pie
22:21i'll make some inquiries ma'am
22:24oh yes
22:25that is relief
22:27thank you inspector
22:28oh inspector
22:33i wonder if you would allow me to have a brief look at gladys's room
22:38how could i say no
22:42oh thank you
22:42yes
22:43and i know that you'll find the blackbirds very well worth your while
22:47yes
22:48i'm beginning to wonder who's in charge of this case
22:54i'll take the family you take the staff
22:57i'll talk about some of the other things
23:00but i wanted to know that they've been completely different
23:04for the family and i believe that this is what we want to say
23:06and that the family in service
23:07may be what i've talked about
23:08they're not able to pretend i can't be
23:09for the children i have not to live in the same way
23:11but i can't understand what the family does
23:13and i have to be a significant part that we've had to arrive
23:14and might not be the family in the same way
23:15but i will build a family of the family
23:16and i will be the family in the same place
23:18because i will build a family with the family
23:21and i will be the family in a family
23:23PIANO PLAYS
23:53I wonder, can you tell me anything about blackbirds, Mrs Fortescue?
24:07Blackbirds? Blackbirds, Inspector, what kind of blackbirds?
24:13Well, just blackbirds, Mrs Fortescue, dead, alive or indifferent.
24:17I've been told they've figured in the life of this household.
24:21In a pie, for example.
24:23I don't know anything about that.
24:27A very nasty, practical joke, I suppose.
24:32It annoyed Rex, really did.
24:35He had Heinrich, that's the gardener, patrol the grounds with a shotgun.
24:40He was afraid of something, not just annoyed.
24:43Oh, quite.
24:44I just think it was a silly joke.
24:52Can you tell me why your late father-in-law left you so much money in your own right?
24:57I asked him for it.
24:59Asked him for it?
25:00Yes.
25:01Just like that?
25:02Yes.
25:03And he gave it to you?
25:04Yes.
25:06I said, Rex, when you die, will you leave me a little money of my own?
25:12Because Percival is so mean.
25:15And Rex said, yes.
25:17So you're going to get your money?
25:18Yes.
25:20Isn't it nice?
25:23Tell me.
25:26Your late father-in-law's death.
25:30What were your feelings about that?
25:32I think I was quite pleased, really.
25:37We were...
25:39I was going to get my money, after all.
25:42After all?
25:44Sorry?
25:45I was going to get my money.
25:48I see.
25:50So you weren't sorry?
25:52Oh, no.
25:53He was a horrid man, you know.
26:02No wonder it's called the Gutter Press.
26:05I can't believe it's us they're writing about.
26:09I'm sorry, my darling.
26:11I'm bad luck.
26:13I warned you, you know.
26:14Don't say that.
26:15You're not to say that.
26:16It's bloody nonsense.
26:23You're the best luck I ever had.
26:30What is it, darling?
26:32Nothing.
26:42What is it, Lance?
26:47Look here, old thing.
26:49I don't think I can face this idea of being a death squaller, you know.
26:53I really don't.
26:54I mean, it's clear that Percival doesn't want me around the place.
26:58I see.
27:00Then what are you going to do?
27:02I want to go back to Africa, Pat.
27:04I hate this place.
27:06Let's go back.
27:07But how would we manage?
27:08Come in.
27:15Ah, good.
27:16Ah, Mr. Fortescue, I wonder if you could help me.
27:19Ah, will you excuse me, Inspector?
27:26Why don't you join us later, Lance?
27:28What?
27:29Miss Marple and me, for coffee.
27:32Oh, yes, good.
27:35Why not?
27:41Yes, Inspector.
27:43What is it?
27:43Well, sir, I've been asking everybody this.
27:46I might as well ask you, even though you've been abroad, I wonder, could you tell me anything about blackbirds?
27:57Blackbirds.
28:00Blackbirds?
28:02Oh, you must mean the old blackbird mine.
28:05The one that Father caught a cold over.
28:08He got taken for a ride by some old digger up on the high veldt or somewhere.
28:12Yeah, there was no gold in the thing, and Father Damney died of malaria for his pains.
28:17There was some scandal about his partner, who actually did die of malaria.
28:21His widow tried to sue him, I think.
28:24Well, Aunt Effie, you know the details.
28:28I don't believe this was ever a happy house, in spite of all the money that's been spent.
28:35But only money, I suspect.
28:37No real affection.
28:39No.
28:39Have you noticed how nothing is really what it seems?
28:45The furniture is supposed to be Louis Sayers, but it's been made in Birmingham.
28:50The paintings are supposed to be Venetian, but they were probably knocked up in Chelsea last week.
28:55Nothing is solid or real.
28:57As if the whole house and everything in it were some kind of gigantic fake.
29:03What did you say, my dear?
29:05About it being a fake?
29:07The whole house?
29:09And everything that goes on in it?
29:12I said everything in it, not that goes on in it.
29:16Oh, yes, of course.
29:19Stupid, Aunt May.
29:19I wondered, ma'am, if you could tell me anything about the Blackbird Mine.
29:30Oh.
29:31You've got on to that, have you?
29:35That was the Marple Woman, wasn't it?
29:38I'll tell you.
29:39I'll tell you.
29:40My late brother-in-law went into it with a man called Mackenzie.
29:45They went out to Africa together, and Mackenzie died there.
29:50Rex came home.
29:51He subsequently admitted that the thing was worthless, hurt his pride, I think.
29:58But then pride and grace ne'er dwelt in one place.
30:03Where was the mine?
30:06Oh, I don't know.
30:07Africa somewhere.
30:08And Percival will know.
30:10The, uh, Mackenzie's didn't let it rest, I gather.
30:16Oh, you want the hearsay as well, do you?
30:22Oh, I'd be most grateful, ma'am.
30:26Mrs Mackenzie was an unbalanced sort of woman.
30:32Ended up in an asylum, I believe.
30:35She came here, you know, dragging along a couple of young children who looked scared to death.
30:41Accused Rex of murdering her husband.
30:45Said she'd bring up her children to take their revenge.
30:48Old sins cast long shadows.
31:00The children.
31:02How about this?
31:04As a motive, at least.
31:07Rex Fortescue swindles some bloke called Mackenzie out of his share of a goldmine.
31:12Mackenzie dies.
31:14One way or another, the widow reckons that Fortescue killed him.
31:19She becomes obsessed by revenge.
31:21She brings up the children to avenge the father.
31:24What happened to the mother?
31:26She ended up in a loony bin.
31:28She may still be there.
31:31They've got to find her.
31:33If she's alive, I want to know where she is.
31:36That's an absolute priority.
31:38And the Mackenzie children, do you reckon one of them could be here?
31:41I mean, here in the house?
31:42Yeah.
31:43Or nearby.
31:47Dubois, Mary Dove, Jennifer Fortescue, they're all about the right age.
31:53Reckon you know who it is?
31:55Yes.
31:57I do.
31:59Mackenzie's Blackbird Mine?
32:02What or where is that?
32:06I think you know very well, Miss Dove.
32:08I assure you, I'm quite in the dark.
32:12I think you know, Inspector, that it's up to you to prove I am this Miss Mackenzie, whoever
32:17she is.
32:18It will at least provide me with the continued pleasure of your company while you probe the
32:22mystery of my identity.
32:23Please don't mock me, Miss Dove.
32:25I wasn't intending to.
32:27As a matter of fact, I meant it, despite the fact that you're keen to implicate me, however
32:32obscurely, in murder.
32:35If you continue to look into my affairs and are extremely clever, you will find certain
32:41minor discrepancies in the household accounting.
32:44I have no intention of begging like Jennifer or selling myself like poor Adele.
32:50However, if I find that you are near the heart of my secret, I shall be able to replace
32:54the money and then it will be impossible to prosecute.
32:58Do you find that immoral in such a place as this?
33:01I wish you hadn't done it.
33:15Yes, God.
33:22Marmalade.
33:27I suppose we get it analysed.
33:29It's bitter enough to disguise the poison, though, isn't it, sir?
33:31And Rex Fortescue was the only one who ever touched the stuff.
33:34Yeah, I know that, but anyone who's able to organise that part of it isn't going to get
33:40rid of the evidence by chucking it out of the pantry window into the bushes.
33:44Yes, sir.
33:45But it was a lot of luck we were onto the taxing so quickly.
33:48They may have thought they had a day or two in hand.
33:50Yeah.
33:52And if we do find taxing in it, that opens it up a bit, doesn't it?
33:57How do you mean?
33:57Well, anyone could have done it who was in the house after the previous day's breakfast was
34:01put away.
34:03Yeah, but who does that include who wasn't involved before?
34:09Percival Fortescue.
34:11All right.
34:12All right, Inspector.
34:13If you're saying that my father's death was in my immediate financial interest, well,
34:17then, yes, of course, you're right.
34:18But that does not give me a motive for killing Adele.
34:20I happen to know she willed her £100,000 out of the family.
34:25What would be the point?
34:26Oh, come on, sir.
34:28If you know that, then you must have known that she had to outlive her husband by at
34:31least a month in order to inherit the stuff.
34:34If she didn't, the money reverted to the estate.
34:36In other words, you, sir.
34:38There was point, all right.
34:41Point in killing them both.
34:42With respect.
34:47So, uh, so you thought that Gladys had gone out to meet her young man?
34:53Well, I don't know.
34:54She seemed, she seemed, well, kind of waiting for something.
34:59Looking out the window, looking in the mirror.
35:01You know what I mean?
35:01Yes.
35:02Yes, I do, yes.
35:04Got it.
35:05Before she took the tea through, she answered the telephone.
35:09Gladys did.
35:09She didn't as a rule, but this time she fair plummeted through that door after it.
35:14And did she say who it was?
35:17No, she said wrong number.
35:20Indeed, yes.
35:22Most interesting, Mrs Crump.
35:25Now, I wonder, would you think me very greedy if I helped myself to another biscuit?
35:30So what percentage of the company capital would you estimate all the African holdings to take?
35:35Oh, come off it, man.
35:36God knows.
35:36I thought I was digging you out of a hole.
35:40Now, make no mistake, I want to get out, but I've got to have some sort of prospects.
35:45I've got Pat to consider.
35:48Can't be as much as 20%.
35:49All right.
35:52All right, yes.
35:53Perhaps that was a bit, a bit churnish of me.
35:55So, you want the balance of your 20% in cash, do you?
36:03Well, we thought if you could secure us a loan, I'll lend us $1,500 a year for the next five years, something like that.
36:08Five years?
36:11All right, four.
36:12Oh, I just thought you might have things on a better footing by then, that's all.
36:17That's true.
36:19Um, do you want this wretched blackbird mine as well?
36:24Sure, sure.
36:25Throw it all in.
36:26What on earth are those?
36:54My birthright.
36:57Tight little Percy, just assign them to me.
36:59A chunk of the dark continent which Percival thinks is worth tuppence.
37:03Oh, Percy, Percy, when you find out.
37:08Come on, gorgeous.
37:10We've got a plane to catch.
37:11You're not just taking it.
37:24Certainly.
37:25First of all, it's the organized one.
37:27You can organize it back from the airport.
37:29Oh, good.
37:45Oh!
38:05Got anything?
38:07This is Mackenzie.
38:09Good.
38:10Where is she?
38:11You can walk it in a quarter of an hour.
38:13What?
38:14It's a mile or two by road, but if you cut through the woods,
38:16Burnham Ridley, the Pine Sanatorium.
38:20Come on.
38:21Let's go talk to the Mackenzie woman.
38:26How big is this place at Burnham Ridley?
38:29It's a private house.
38:30Oh, Inspector.
38:32Yes, Miss Marple.
38:33Oh, you weren't thinking of the sanatorium,
38:35were you visiting there by any chance?
38:37Oh, not that that's important now, no.
38:39What isn't?
38:40Mrs Mackenzie.
38:42No, what is much more to the point is...
38:43What do you know about Mrs Mackenzie?
38:45Oh, well, just everything there is to know.
38:47There's not but this very much, I'm afraid.
38:49I went there this morning.
38:50The poor dear's mind is completely gone.
38:52No, what is much more important is that I think I saw
38:55Lance Fortescue and his wife driving away.
38:58Now, he must be stopped, I'm afraid.
39:00Well, he had business in Paris and I saw no reason to detain him.
39:04He wasn't even in the country when the first...
39:06Yes, yes.
39:07Yes, I know, but I think they ought to be stopped.
39:09Well, don't ask me why.
39:11I can tell you the how.
39:13Well, not the precise how, but the general how.
39:15But the why escapes me, except, of course, that it's greed.
39:18One knows that naturally.
39:19But, er...
39:20No, I expect the precise why will emerge in due course.
39:24But, er...
39:25Oh, dear.
39:29You think they should be stopped, Miss Marple?
39:32He should.
39:33Yes.
39:34Yes.
39:39Well, Miss Marple, I failed to listen to you once and I regretted it.
39:43Put out a general call for Fortescue's car.
39:45They'll be heading towards north.
39:46I'll keep an eye on it.
39:47Right, sir.
39:55Well, Miss Marple, perhaps you could elaborate.
39:58Oh, yes.
40:04Yes.
40:07Yeah, Bentley.
40:08Registration GXA 579.
40:11General surveillance only.
40:13Right.
40:14We found the pot of marmalade in the garden, but I can't believe...
40:18Oh, so that was how it was done, yes.
40:20Yes, very simple, of course.
40:23Yes, but it's such a stupid way of getting rid of the evidence.
40:27Oh, but the killer, Rex Fortescue, wasn't very bright, I'm afraid.
40:31And who was that?
40:33Oh, it was Gladys Martin, of course.
40:36Oh, she didn't mean to.
40:37She put the taxine in the marmalade, but she didn't think it was poison.
40:42Or did she think it was?
40:43Oh, I imagine she thought it was some form of a truth drug, you know, something like that.
40:48She was told to put it in just as she was told to put a handful of rye in Rex Fortescue's pocket and just as she was told to serve honey for tea.
40:56You have to keep constantly in mind that poor Gladys was not attractive. She was a lump, I'm afraid, and more importantly still, very credulous.
41:06It would have been quite easy for her to believe in a truth drug if told her by a personable young man.
41:11And who was that?
41:13Well, he called himself Albert Evans.
41:15He met her at a holiday camp. He flattered her, made love to her, and told her some story of injustice.
41:21You see, that is where the truth drug came in. It was to have taken effect when Rex Fortescue arrived at his office.
41:28There, forced by this miracle of modern science, he was to have admitted the truth before witnesses.
41:36Her Albert got her to apply for a job here when one came up, and I must say she had very good references, even though I do say it myself.
41:44And when she knew that she had caused his death...
41:51Well, what was the first thing that she said to you when you questioned her?
41:56She said, I didn't do it.
41:58Exactly. That's exactly what she would say.
42:02If ever she broke a vase or something, you know, she would always say, I didn't do it, Miss Marple.
42:07I can't think how it happened. Poor dear.
42:10Besides which, her Albert was meeting her the next day, and she knew that he would explain everything to her.
42:15You see, that was the telephone call she took just before tea.
42:19So, she brought the tray into the hall, she saw him outside, she left the tray, she went out to meet him, and he killed her.
42:33Yes, exactly.
42:36And her Albert?
42:37Oh, I'm so sorry. Didn't I say?
42:42Lance Fortescue.
42:50There she blows.
42:51Oh, no. Please, no.
43:08No.
43:09Please, no.
43:10No.
43:21No.
43:26No.
43:28Oh, my God.
43:58It was a poor, sad girl, Pat, who put me onto it.
44:19Blackbird business in the pocket full of rye.
44:22The way things fitted into the rye were all complete fake.
44:25Like much in this house, used by Lance Fortescue,
44:28had heard about the blackbirds, that's all.
44:35What's happening, Lance?
44:36What have you done?
44:55Have you swindled Percival or something?
44:57What the hell do we do now?
45:00We're observing them.
45:02We were told to keep them under observation, and we are.
45:05He told me to go to hell.
45:10And he meant it.
45:13He meant hell.
45:15Who did?
45:16His own son.
45:21The bloody sadist.
45:25Well, he's finished hurting people.
45:29I thought the only way to get his hand on the money was to kill his father,
45:34and to use the nursery rhyme to cover his tracks.
45:36Just as he used poor Gladys.
45:41After I saw Aunt Effie,
45:44I slipped down the back stairs
45:46and round to the sitting room to see Adele.
45:49I knew the lazy cat would be there.
45:55She said as much just by looking at me.
46:00She was waiting.
46:04I could have laced her tea five times over.
46:09It must have been more than greed to plan all that.
46:12Oh, yes.
46:13And, of course, his real madness was
46:16thinking he could do what he did
46:18and keep the love of a girl like Pat.
46:25It was for us, you see.
46:28I wanted for us to be all right.
46:32You're the only thing I've ever really loved.
46:36The only person who really cared.
46:40I knew you'd see it through, you see.
46:43You're...
46:44You're...
46:45You're...
46:46You're the one...
46:51I mean...
46:52You...
46:55Dad...
46:56I told you...
47:01I'm bad luck.
47:05I can't.
47:06I can't.
47:13Dad...
47:14Get out!
47:15Get out!
47:17I can't!
47:18I can't.
47:26I have been crying out.
47:34It's a few losses.
47:37Sure.
47:38But close came up.
47:39What?
47:41Australia has gone!
47:41It's okay.
47:42It's taken that road.
47:43Rex Fortescue was about to pull off the most spectacular coup of his life.
48:09All those dud African properties, including the famous Blackbird Mine, were practically next door to each other.
48:17In 12 months, he'd accumulated a small mountain range of high-grade uranium ore.
48:24It's worth millions.
48:26All businessmen are the victims of greed, some way or another, I fear.
48:33I'd like to thank you, Miss Marple.
48:35I don't think I'd have got there without you.
48:37Oh, yes, men like Lance, you know, always prove their own hangman.
48:43Oh, yes, you would have got there.
48:44I just happen to know Gladys, and I happen to hear Mrs. Parsons' little children singing, that's all.
48:51Oh, excuse me, Inspector, I get...
48:56Did you want a word, Mrs. Fortescue?
49:02Oh, no.
49:05No, no.
49:07Was it your mother's idea or yours?
49:11Nursey said you were very kind to her.
49:15Poor mummy.
49:19Yes, it was her idea.
49:21I mean, her idea.
49:22But it was you who thought of marrying Percival.
49:26Sort of.
49:27Sort of happened, really.
49:30And the blackbirds.
49:32Was that your idea of avenging your father?
49:35Mummy made me.
49:37She did.
49:38Nevertheless, it was very naughty.
49:41Her ex deserved it.
49:43He was a horrid man.
49:44Well, it's not the point.
49:45No.
49:50Well, you'll be leaving your husband now.
49:55Yes.
49:59Yes.
50:00Well, goodbye, Mrs. Fortescue.
50:03Goodbye.
50:06Well, so the McKinsey's got their money after all.
50:15At least £40,000 worth of it.
50:19That's what she meant.
50:21Yes, I see.
50:24And all she had to do was ask for it.
50:25Old Rex just gave it to her.
50:27Oh, do you think so?
50:29I think he knew who she was.
50:32But there, we shall never really know now, will we?
50:34Well, goodbye, Inspector.
50:36Goodbye.
50:39Now, you.
50:42It's very mean.
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