First broadcast 3rd January 1991.
At a flower show, Poirot is approached by an mysterious woman in a wheelchair.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
Anne Stallybrass as Mary Delafontaine
Tim Wylton as Henry Delafontaine
Margery Mason as Amelia Barrowby
Catherine Russell as Katrina Reiger
Peter Birch as Nicholai
Ralph Nossek as Dr Sims
John Burgess as Mr Harrison
Dorcas Morgan as Lucy
Trevor Danby as Mr Trumper
John Rogan as Pathologist
Stephen Petcher as Photographer
Philip Praeger as Police Constable
At a flower show, Poirot is approached by an mysterious woman in a wheelchair.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
Anne Stallybrass as Mary Delafontaine
Tim Wylton as Henry Delafontaine
Margery Mason as Amelia Barrowby
Catherine Russell as Katrina Reiger
Peter Birch as Nicholai
Ralph Nossek as Dr Sims
John Burgess as Mr Harrison
Dorcas Morgan as Lucy
Trevor Danby as Mr Trumper
John Rogan as Pathologist
Stephen Petcher as Photographer
Philip Praeger as Police Constable
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08:38aesthetique
08:43where have you been hiding you've been ages it was very crowded oh what's
08:48happening are you all right yes yes i'm perfectly all right there's nothing the
08:52matter i'm quite well now here we'll get rid of that water and find my
08:56No, auntie.
09:01Let's see what ideas I can find for my boarders, shall we?
09:08Fuchsia trifilaflor cochineal.
09:11Discovered by a French missionary in 1703.
09:14He's most interesting, Chief Inspector. How is your hay fever these days?
09:17Oh, much better, thanks.
09:22Here you are.
09:25What's this?
09:27Oh, that is a gift from an Amara, his name is.
09:30Mademoiselle Amelia Barrowby.
09:32Really?
09:35I don't think you'll be getting many blooms from this lot, though, Poirot.
09:38Do you not have a good variety?
09:40Oh, yes, one of the best.
09:42Thing is, there's no seeds in it.
09:48Oh, you're home, madam.
09:51I was worried about the supper.
09:53Don't worry, Lucy.
09:55We haven't forgotten your night off.
09:57Who is it this week?
09:58Ronald Coleman.
10:00Will Miss Katrina be dining?
10:02Yes.
10:04Yes, she just had a little errand to do.
10:08Here you are.
10:13Here's your apple.
10:22There we are.
10:23Should do the business.
10:42Good evening, Miss Lemon.
10:43Mr. Poirot.
10:45This morning's post, still on your desk.
10:47Thank you very much, Miss Lemon.
10:56I just can't understand it.
10:58I've never had this trouble before.
11:00I cannot say with certainty that I have noticed it.
11:03I did have a bit of stick with an allergy once, but I was...
11:07Wouldn't that be rash, perhaps?
11:13It is most intriguing.
11:16You know, what I don't understand, Poirot,
11:18is why someone would want to give you an empty packet of seeds.
11:24Well, perhaps this will be the answer to your question, Hastings.
11:27A letter from Mademoiselle Amelia Baraby.
11:30From the same woman.
11:32It seems strange she didn't mention writing to you.
11:35Yes, indeed.
11:43Listen to this.
11:46Dear Monsieur Poirot,
11:48I hope you will forgive the form of this letter,
11:50but I have to be very careful.
11:53For some time now, I have been concerned
11:55that something is very wrong in my household.
11:59When age began to catch up with me,
12:01my niece Mary and her husband agreed to take care of me
12:04in return for a roof over their heads.
12:07It's all there, madame.
12:08Oh, and the soup and fish pie on a low light.
12:10Thank you, Lucy.
12:12Mary runs the house efficiently enough,
12:15although her husband Henry has one particular weakness
12:20of which I thoroughly disapprove.
12:25Then, about a year ago,
12:27I had cause to engage a young Russian girl as my companion.
12:31Oh, there you are.
12:32Tell my aunt we'll have supper directly.
12:36I am assured from your description
12:39that you are discretion itself.
12:42Even so, I hardly dare set down the matter that is troubling me.
12:47My worry is that if word of my suspicions reach the wrong person,
12:51I very much fear what might happen.
12:55Henry?
12:59Coming, darling.
13:00For this reason, I must continue to behave as normally as I can...
13:09in case this person should take fright.
13:15Madame.
13:21What does he put into these things?
13:25For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.
13:32If you will help me,
13:34perhaps you would call and speak with me at the above address as soon as possible.
13:39Yours very truly, Amelia Barroway.
13:46Curious.
13:48All sounds a bit dotty, if you ask me.
13:51Why didn't she just tell you about it when she met you?
13:56The old lady is unaccompanied for the moment.
13:59She is frightened she may be discovered.
14:05She passes to me a harmless packet.
14:10What does it mean?
14:13Probably has an active imagination.
14:15A lot of old dears do.
14:18Rosebank, Sherman's Green.
14:20Where is that?
14:21South. Borders of Surrey. Greenfields, certainly.
14:27Not sure I like the sound of that.
14:30Eh bien, at the first thing tomorrow, Miss Lemon,
14:32I would like you to accompany me on a visit to Mademoiselle Amelia Barroway.
14:36If you wish, Mr. Poirot.
15:17Come on.
15:47Oh, no!
16:06Ah! Madame, please!
16:11Madame, please, what is it?
16:13Get away from her!
16:16Get away!
16:24She is so sick!
16:26Oh, my God!
16:28Get the doctor.
16:29What?
16:30The doctor, you idiot! Quickly!
16:41I'm afraid she's not here.
16:44No, no, he's not here either.
16:46They've gone down to Charmond's Green.
16:48I'm sort of holding the fort as I can't risk the pollen.
16:52Where's she going to settle the account?
16:54Pardon?
16:55She's going to settle the account.
16:57Oh.
16:58Well, I'm sure she meant to pay it.
17:00Hang on, I'll dig out the bill and have a look.
17:14I'll just be a moment, Mr. Trumper.
17:45Perhaps you would have the goodness to wait.
17:48We'll be requiring a receipt upon pay.
17:51A receipt?
17:59I wonder...
18:01What is it?
18:03I don't know.
18:05I don't know.
18:07I don't know.
18:09I don't know.
18:11I wonder...
18:13What is it, Mr. Poirot?
18:15I'm not certain, Miss Lemon.
18:22Come.
18:27A most orderly garden, is it not?
18:30Very neat.
18:34They should have finished that edging, though.
18:37Hmm.
18:42Ah!
18:44This is like your English nursery rhyme, Miss Lemon.
18:49Merry, merry, quite contrary.
18:52How does your garden grow?
18:54With silver berries...
18:56Oh, pardon.
18:58I fear that this has been dropped in your garden.
19:01That's not my garden.
19:03That's my garden.
19:05That's my garden.
19:07That's my garden.
19:09This has been dropped in your garden.
19:11That's where it got to.
19:13It must have been dropped, what with...
19:15Thank you, sir.
19:17Je vous en prie.
19:19Is Mother Baraby at home?
19:21Oh, sir!
19:23Didn't you know?
19:25It was last night, she...
19:29I'm afraid she died, sir.
19:33If you just wait here, sir...
19:35Thank you so much.
19:46You are a lawyer.
19:50Why should I be a lawyer, mademoiselle?
19:52I thought perhaps you have come to say
19:55she did not know what she was doing.
19:58Perhaps you have come to say she did not know what she was doing.
20:02That is not right.
20:04She wrote it down, and so shall it be.
20:13Mr Poirot, I'm so sorry.
20:16May I introduce myself?
20:18Mary Delafontaine.
20:20Madame.
20:21This is my husband.
20:22How do you do, monsieur?
20:24Miss Baraby was my aunt.
20:31I very much regret, madame,
20:33that I intruded on your bereavement.
20:35Oh, please, be reassured.
20:37It was rather unexpected.
20:40Hercule Poirot.
20:42I thought you were that detective, monsieur.
20:44Of course, the new rose.
20:47I saw you at the flower show.
20:50What brings you to our house?
20:52Oh, forgive me, madame.
20:54Mademoiselle Baraby had written to me a letter,
20:56and she wished to consult me on a certain matter.
20:59What matter?
21:01That was of a private nature, madame.
21:04You didn't mention Ruskies, did you?
21:06Pardon? Ruskies?
21:08Bolshies, the red minnows.
21:10Henry, please.
21:12Sorry, I just thought...
21:17Mr Poirot, couldn't you tell us a little more?
21:21Well, Mr Poirot?
21:23At the present moment, madame, I regret that I must say nothing.
21:27Forgive me. I will show myself out.
21:30Au revoir, madame, monsieur.
21:34Au revoir, madame, monsieur.
21:51There is a mouse in this hole, Miss Lemont.
21:54What must the cat do now, huh?
21:57I'm sure I don't know what that means, Mr Poirot.
22:04Where to now, sir?
22:06You tell me.
22:09Chief Inspector.
22:12I noticed at once that your men, they were making the surveillance.
22:16Family doctor put us onto the whole thing.
22:19When I phoned Captain Hastings, he told me you were on your way here.
22:23I trust you didn't blow the gaff to the De La Fontaines.
22:26As far as they're concerned, we're just waiting for the post-mortem.
22:29So you suspect as I do?
22:31We're doing our own little test right now.
22:33We'll go down at the mortuary.
22:36Perhaps you'd rather wait in the taxi, Miss Lemont.
22:39No, thank you. I did help in the hospital morgue during the war.
22:43More filing, Miss Lemont.
22:45Mr Poirot.
22:47There's no doubt whatsoever.
22:52Strychnine. A very large dose.
22:55Which would have to be administered very shortly.
22:59Right. We'd better find out what they all had for dinner.
23:02Miss Lemont.
23:05Artichoke soup, served from a tureen.
23:08Fish pie and apple tart.
23:10I was chatting to the maid. She had some time off to see a film.
23:14All four of them ate the same thing.
23:16Excellent, Miss Lemont.
23:18Can't have been in the food, then, if they all had it.
23:21I'm afraid so.
23:23Excellent, Miss Lemont.
23:25Can't have been in the food, then, if they all had it.
23:28Must have slipped it to the old girl separately.
23:30No, no, Chief Inspector. That cannot be.
23:33He's right. Strychnine's as bitter as gall.
23:37You can taste it in a solution of one in a thousand.
23:42Coffee?
23:43She never drank it.
23:45Well, I'm angry if I can see how anyone did it.
23:47Nevertheless, Chief Inspector,
23:49someone in that household is a cold-blooded poisoner.
24:20I feared it might be this.
24:23I've seen something like it once before in my old practice.
24:26Oh?
24:27Rich old Biddy takes in her penniless relatives.
24:30Holds the purse strings.
24:32The temptation is to speed up the natural process and collect.
24:35So the Delafontaines, they were dependent on the money of Mademoiselle Barabier?
24:39Totally. Hadn't a peen of their own.
24:42Dabbled in stocks and shares, I'm afraid.
24:45Crash hit them as badly as any of us.
24:48And they're her only living relatives.
24:52Yes.
24:55Certain to inherit.
24:58Substantial private income, by all accounts.
25:03Excuse me, Monsieur le Docteur.
25:06Was Mademoiselle Barabier taking the medicine of any kind?
25:09Not much we can do for her.
25:11Was Mademoiselle Barabier taking the medicine of any kind?
25:14Not much we can do for her at that age.
25:16Just a cachet before meals to aid the digestion.
25:19Ah.
25:20Oh, no, it couldn't have been her powders.
25:23Katrina guarded those like a demon.
25:25Well, perhaps she slipped in the poison.
25:27But why?
25:29Katrina wouldn't poison her mistress.
25:31Much better keep her alive than remain employed.
25:34She wrote it down, and so shall it be.
25:38She what?
25:40Possibly nothing.
25:42Well, one thing's for sure.
25:44The de la Fontaine's have got to be told
25:46that this is now a murder investigation.
25:49Tommy Poirot?
25:50No, no, not for the present, Chief Inspector.
25:53Doctor?
25:55Tell me, Doctor Simms,
25:57did Mademoiselle Barabier have a solicitor?
26:11I understand the problem,
26:13but I'm not due to read the will until next Saturday.
26:20The girl said to me,
26:22she wrote it down, and so shall it be.
26:25Have you any idea what she meant by that?
26:28I'm afraid I'm bound to remain silent.
26:31Mr. Harrison, please forgive me.
26:33I am not asking you to break the confidentiality of a client.
26:36However, it is unfortunate that it serves the purposes of a murderer.
26:52Numbers 3, 9, and 14, please.
27:01It's rather a difficult decision, this one.
27:04It's rather a difficult decision, this one.
27:14These two are well known to everyone.
27:17The mayor and the gelding.
27:19Solid, reliable.
27:22And then there's this.
27:24A young filly, foreign bloodstock, unconventional.
27:28A new arrival in a close-knit stable.
27:32And which will win the prize?
27:52A new arrival wins it.
27:55Mr. Harrison, I thank you.
27:58Justice has been seen to be done.
28:04Mr. Lamont.
28:06I'll have you pounding the beat again for two pennies.
28:09I've never known a more dozy pair of layabouts.
28:12Chief Inspector.
28:14Waro.
28:17I bring the bad news.
28:19Well, I've had my share of bad news.
28:22I bring the bad news.
28:24Well, I've had my fair share of that for the day.
28:26It is not the Delafontains who inherit the money among the Barabi.
28:29It is the Russian girl, Katrina Rager,
28:31and she was aware of the fact for all of the time.
28:36Do you hear that?
28:38If there wasn't a lady present,
28:40your ears would be burning so much,
28:42they'd boil what's left of your brains.
28:44But what has happened?
28:46They've only gone and let her slip out of the place.
28:48Katrina Rager has gone missing.
28:51Murder?
28:55It's so unthinkable.
28:58I just didn't...
29:00Henry, I should have listened to you. I'm sorry.
29:03I never did trust that girl.
29:06Oh.
29:08I think I feel faint.
29:10Easy, Elvie.
29:12Thank you, Doctor.
29:14A lie down would be the best idea.
29:19It's been a shock for us all.
29:25A little bit of Russia in our green and pleasant land, eh?
29:29Most interesting.
29:31Tell me, Chief Inspector, do you know which is this particular scent?
29:34All these foreign bearded types look the same to me.
29:39Does it matter?
29:41Possibly not.
29:43Let us rejoin the others.
30:01I've given her a mild sedative.
30:03Thank you, Doctor.
30:05It's been quite an experience.
30:07Ah, Mr Poirot, Chief Inspector.
30:09Monsieur le Docteur.
30:11Goodbye.
30:12Goodbye.
30:14Never liked that girl. Secretive.
30:16You suspected that Mademoiselle Barabi had left to her everything?
30:19Oh, no, not for sure.
30:21Well, there's always a threat.
30:23Sir!
30:26In the Russian box.
30:28Hmm.
30:30Looks like strickening to me, all right.
30:32If I'm any judge, all Miss Raig will be collecting is a trip to the Old Bailey.
30:36If that is her name.
30:38What do you mean?
30:40Communist agitator.
30:42Spreads trouble, raises money working for the revolution in England.
30:45Some of it, sir. That's boys' own paper stuff.
30:47No, no, no, Chief Inspector, sir.
30:49I feel that Monsieur Delafontaine is quite right.
30:55Well, check again.
30:57There is no possibility of error in the state information files.
31:01She must be registered.
31:03She's been living here three years.
31:05Comrade Stalin makes no provision for mistakes.
31:08We know no one called Katrina Raiger.
31:15You've been a great help.
31:22One more thing, Monsieur.
31:25What was it that Marx called the opiate of the masses?
31:31Popular fiction, comrade.
31:33Ah, yes, of course.
31:43Looks like you could be right, Poirot.
31:45She must be one of those agitators.
31:47Why else would they deny all knowledge of her?
31:49Probably back in Russia by now.
31:51I do not think that she would enjoy that.
31:53She's a red, isn't she?
31:55I hardly think so, Chief Inspector.
31:57Not with an image of the late Tsar on her dressing table.
31:59But you said...
32:01That Monsieur Delafontaine is right? Oh, yes.
32:03Raiger is not her real name.
32:06Well, what do we do now?
32:08Raiger is not her real name.
32:10Well, what do we do now?
32:12If I were you, Chief Inspector,
32:14I would look for the Russian church in London.
32:16The opiate of the masses is religion,
32:19as the young man fully knows.
32:21And now...
32:23It is time for my tea time, Miss Lemon.
32:27Chief Inspector?
32:39Mr Trump has phoned three or four times.
32:42He's really very upset.
32:44Perhaps I should send the cash round by messenger.
32:46Five guineas will settle the account.
32:48Certainly not, Captain Hastings.
32:50Just ignore it. I'll have words with him when I return.
32:53Yes, but...
32:55And on no account disturb the files.
32:58Bye for the moment.
33:00Bye for the moment.
33:31Miss Lemon,
33:33I want you to think of yourself a little history.
33:35Mr Poirot?
33:38You are a Russian girl.
33:40Yes.
33:41And you are employed as a nurse companion
33:43to an old lady who is very demanding.
33:45Yes.
33:46And she takes a liking to you, this old lady,
33:48and she decides to leave to you all her money.
33:50She tells you so.
33:53But there is one worry.
33:55You have not been entirely honest about your background.
33:58Disaster.
34:00You suspect that she has called upon the services of a famous detective.
34:04You act swiftly.
34:06And before he arrives, this detective,
34:08the old lady is dead.
34:10The money is yours.
34:12Does this sound to you reasonable?
34:16I'm rather afraid it does.
34:19I agree.
34:23If only we could be sure of what Mademoiselle Baraby was suspicious of.
34:27If only she could have left us more of a clue.
34:31Are you sure she didn't slip something into the seed packet?
34:45No.
34:50Of course.
34:54What a simpleton I have become.
34:56Ah, Poirot.
34:57Here it is. Russian church, not a sparrow's hop from it.
35:00Excellent.
35:01But first, if you please, Miss Lemon,
35:03do you have two pennies?
35:05For a tip, Mr Poirot?
35:07For the telephone, Miss Lemon.
35:27Bonjour, Mademoiselle Rieger.
35:29No, Mademoiselle!
35:31Be not alarmed.
35:33This is sanctuary.
35:36You are safe here.
35:39I want only to know the truth.
35:44Why did you run away?
35:47I did not run away.
35:50I did not run away.
35:53Why did you run away?
35:57I know what you all think.
35:59It was I who poisoned the hair.
36:02Oh, yes, I know these signs. I have seen it in Russia,
36:04when Stalin's men came.
36:07Your family was persecuted because of their position,
36:10so you fled secretly to England.
36:14What do you care?
36:16Like them, you wish me to be penniless.
36:19This I must know, Mademoiselle.
36:21Did no one touch the medication but you?
36:24I would rather have died.
36:26And Mademoiselle Barabi had for her dinner only what we know?
36:29Of course, or somebody would have noticed.
36:32It must have been a great trial for a girl like you
36:35to work for another.
36:37Fetch this, carry that,
36:40when once you had servants of your own.
36:43I am a regimeirof.
36:47I am not afraid of work.
36:52And are you afraid of the noose?
36:59It was on the seed packet all the time.
37:02Catherine the Great, or in Russian, Katrina,
37:06I realized on the way over.
37:08Here he comes.
37:39I will go with you now.
37:41Take her and charge her.
37:49Well, at least she came quietly.
37:51There's a nice tidy end to the whole business.
37:54I do not think so, Chief Inspector.
37:58Come, Mr. Newman.
38:02Oh, no.
38:08Oh, no.
38:23Hello, Poirot, chap, Miss Leaven.
38:29How goes the sneezing, Hastings?
38:31Oh, dear.
38:33This package arrived for you.
38:35Seems to be full of old letters.
38:37Ah, thank you.
38:42Now, look here, Poirot.
38:44I can't for the life of me see what's bothering you.
38:46The girl saw you talking to the old biddy.
38:48She knew something was up.
38:50She had the motive and she had the only opportunity.
38:52We know without a doubt who did it.
38:54Oh, yes, we know that, I think.
38:57What are these, Poirot?
38:59These, Hastings, are the routine letters
39:01that Mademoiselle Baraby wrote to her accountant,
39:03and this is the letter that she wrote to me.
39:08Now, if you look very carefully, Hastings,
39:11you will note in the handwriting
39:13the important but subtle difference.
39:16I see.
39:18So Katrina swapped her mistress's letter
39:20with the one she wrote herself.
39:23Oh, Hastings, how I have missed your powers of deduction.
39:28Now, the one thing that bothers me
39:30is the proof of how it was done.
39:33We have that.
39:35Don't we?
39:36Captain Hastings!
39:39What is this?
39:43Ah, yes.
39:45I was going to explain about that.
39:47I told you not to pay this account!
39:50Well, Mr Trumper was very persistent.
39:53But you don't know, tradesman.
39:55If you pay in cash, they'll never forget you.
39:58They'll think your checks aren't good.
40:01Of course!
40:04We will make another visit to Charles Green.
40:06You also, Miss Lemond.
40:08I, Mr Poirot?
40:09Oh, yes.
40:10I want you to pay a visit to a fishmonger.
40:26You've recovered from the shock now.
40:28Thank you, yes.
40:30It's all been rather an ordeal.
40:32Ah, good afternoon.
40:34Good afternoon.
40:35Monsieur le docteur.
40:36Madame.
40:37Monsieur.
40:38Mr Poirot.
40:39What a pleasant surprise.
40:41Now I can thank you for all you've done behind the scenes.
40:44Je vous en prie, madame.
40:46Merci, mademoiselle.
40:47Please, do sit down.
40:48Ah, thank you, monsieur.
40:49Pleasure.
40:50Ah, an unpleasant business, eh?
40:55And not a simple one.
40:58Now that it's all over, perhaps you take us into your confidence.
41:01Yes.
41:02What was it, a bullshit plot?
41:05They played their part, but no.
41:10As you know, Mademoiselle Baraby had written to me.
41:13But she dared not to confide to me her exact worries,
41:16in case that letter, it had been intercepted.
41:18But then, you know, wonder upon wonders,
41:20she catches sight of me at the flower show,
41:22so she contrives the brief meeting.
41:25Pardon, madame.
41:26Please allow me.
41:27No, no, no.
41:28It was my fault.
41:29Thinking that I had already read her letter.
41:32She spoke to you?
41:34Oh, yes, but you see, madame, here was her problem.
41:36She might be watched.
41:38She might be overheard.
41:40So she passes to me an innocent packet,
41:43which is a clue to that which she suspects.
41:46A clue?
41:47Yes.
41:48In fact, monsieur le docteur,
41:49it was something that you said that finally made it clear to me
41:52the significance of the packet.
41:56Stocks!
42:01I telephoned to the accountant of Mademoiselle Baraby in the city,
42:04who confirmed that during the recent months,
42:06Mademoiselle Baraby had been moving into the ventures of most high risk,
42:10as these letters of instruction to her broker prove.
42:14Except, these letters, they were not written by Mademoiselle Baraby.
42:18No, no.
42:19They are the forgeries of the most careful...
42:23Damnable bolshie.
42:25Quite unrathery, Moses.
42:28Ah, yes.
42:30Monsieur Delafontaine,
42:32you attempt to confuse me with your ridiculous stories about spies.
42:37Mademoiselle Réga is a Russian aristocrat, not a communist.
42:41In truth, monsieur Delafontaine,
42:43you have been trying to conceal a most devious murder.
42:47Sorry.
42:50Mr. Poirot, is this melodrama essential?
42:56When I first came here, monsieur le docteur,
42:58this beautiful garden, it reminded me of your famous English nursery rhyme.
43:03Merry, merry, quite contrary,
43:05how does your garden grow?
43:08With the silver bells, and the cockleshells,
43:11and the pretty maids all in a row.
43:14Except, they were not cockleshells that were used in the border of the garden.
43:19They were oyster shells.
43:22The favorite but forbidden treat of your aunt, were they not?
43:27Madame Delafontaine,
43:29you also saw me at the flower show,
43:31but you could not risk a discovery,
43:33that for some time you had once again been speculating with the stocks.
43:36Only on this occasion, madame, with the money of your aunt.
43:39I believe you are also speculating, Mr. Poirot.
43:44Where is your proof?
43:46Ah, yes, madame, the proof.
43:49I'm afraid the fishmonger remembers you buying the oysters on that day.
43:54You see, madame, you were foolish enough to take cash.
44:00He's got us, Merry.
44:02You idiot!
44:05Merry!
44:07Merry!
44:16Darling, that's me.
44:20There is no escape, madame.
44:23That miserable Russian rat!
44:27She will pay for this!
44:30That miserable Russian rat!
44:33She was going to get everything,
44:36including my garden!
44:38My garden!
44:40So you would plant the poison in her room and send her to her death?
44:43What did it matter? She's a little fool!
44:48Keep back!
44:50Oh, yes.
44:52That jelly of a husband of mine tried to talk me out of it,
44:55but it was so deliciously easy.
44:58Auntie always had a weakness for oysters,
45:01but the doctor disapproved.
45:03It was simple to produce them as a secret treat.
45:06She swallowed them so quickly,
45:08she never noticed the taste of the strychnine.
45:11The only problem was to dispose of the shells,
45:13so Lucy wouldn't notice.
45:15And edging on the flowerbed was perfect.
45:18It also provided a resting place for the bell,
45:21always ringing over and over.
45:24And so it is over, madame.
45:26Not quite!
45:29No, madame, no!
45:37Whiskey?
45:42Sorry, darling.
45:46You fool!
45:48You've condemned me to my gallows!
45:52Mr De La Fontaine?
46:04Bravo, mademoiselle.
46:06You are indeed as brave as you claim.
46:08And now you are free.
46:10Free?
46:12Your young friend, he is waiting.
46:22Thank you, monsieur Poirot, for not betraying us.
46:26One day we shall be truly free.
46:34Where to, miss?
46:36Take us to...
46:39the Ritz.
46:42Swipe me. She's the Queen of Sheba.
46:51The Queen of Sheba
47:09Good evening, Hastings.
47:11Hello there, all.
47:13Captain Hastings, what are you doing?
47:16All that pollen!
47:18I'm afraid I've made some misrightous announcements.
47:20It wasn't hay fever, after all.
47:21It certainly sounded like it.
47:23You remember I said I had an allergy once before?
47:25I remember what it was.
47:27An aunt of mine was fond of a particular French lady's perfume.
47:30Every time I went near her or in the room where she'd been,
47:33I couldn't stop sneezing.
47:34I'm afraid, Miss Lemon, you must use a different perfume.
47:37I never wear perfume to work, Mr Poirot.
47:40You don't?
47:41It would be most inappropriate.
47:43Somebody's wearing perfume. I can smell it.
47:48Perhaps it is the flowers, my friend.
47:56Oh, it's different.
47:58It's over here somewhere.
48:02Poirot, what on earth are you wearing?
48:04I do not know what you mean, Hastings.
48:07We're wearing scent.
48:09Nonsense, Hastings!
48:11I am wearing the discreet manly cologne
48:13that I purchased from Mr Trumper.
48:15For five guineas.
48:17Five guineas?
48:18I thought it was all his haircuts for a year.
48:20That is enough!
48:22The office of Poirot is close for business.
48:25Miss Lemon, cover up your typewriter.
48:27Good day to you, Chief Inspector Shapp.
48:29And, Hastings, will you please go home and nurse your unfortunate affliction?
48:47.