First broadcast 27th January 1991.
Poirot runs into his old friend John Harrison at a village fete, and upon being introduced to his fiancée and his other friend, he and Hastings set out to prevent a murder.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
Martin Turner as John Harrison
Melanie Jessop as Molly Deane
Peter Capaldi as Claude Langton
John Boswall as Dr Belvedere
Kate Lynn Evans as Mrs Henderson (as Kate Lynn-Evans)
Serena Scott Thomas as Model Girl
Hilary Tindall as Compere at Fashion Show
Julian Forsyth as Waiter
Mark Chapman as PC Keating
Cole Henderson as Driver
Poirot runs into his old friend John Harrison at a village fete, and upon being introduced to his fiancée and his other friend, he and Hastings set out to prevent a murder.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon
Martin Turner as John Harrison
Melanie Jessop as Molly Deane
Peter Capaldi as Claude Langton
John Boswall as Dr Belvedere
Kate Lynn Evans as Mrs Henderson (as Kate Lynn-Evans)
Serena Scott Thomas as Model Girl
Hilary Tindall as Compere at Fashion Show
Julian Forsyth as Waiter
Mark Chapman as PC Keating
Cole Henderson as Driver
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00:42Sorry about this, Clara.
00:45I thought as she was here visiting with her sister,
00:47it'd be a simple matter for her to meet us at the station.
00:50Hold tight, please.
00:51The trouble with Mrs Japp is, once she gets nattering over a cup of tea,
00:54she loses all track of time.
00:57Perhaps you two better run along and we'll see you there.
00:59No, no, we wouldn't dream.
01:01Yes, Chief Inspector, that is a suggestion most sensible.
01:04Come, Hastings, we look for a taxi.
01:08Ah, you know what he's like when he hasn't had a case for a few weeks.
01:11I thought a nice afternoon at a Garden Fade might cheer him up a bit.
01:14Taxi!
01:17Hmm.
01:18About the only thing that's going to cheer him up today
01:20is the discovery of a body in the Lucky Dip.
01:22Ha, ha, ha.
01:25Stomach still giving you due?
01:27That crab mayonnaise sandwich I had for lunch like there's not.
01:30Taxi!
01:31It'd be a fine way to spend my afternoon off
01:33if I end up contracting food poisoning.
01:34Hastings!
01:36You go on, Captain Hastings, and we'll see you both later.
01:43Marble Hill Park, if you please, driver.
01:48Nice sack, isn't it?
01:50Ah, Hastings, that fashion.
01:53The girl driving the car.
01:55I'm sure I've seen her before somewhere.
01:57On a magazine cover.
02:20Ah!
02:51BIRDS CHIRP
03:04Anyone at home?
03:06Duh!
03:08Ooh, careful, you'll mess up my cloak.
03:11What do you think?
03:13I think I'm a very, very lucky chap.
03:16Come on, let's get inside.
03:18I thought we were stung to death.
03:20You know, there are wasps all over the place.
03:22Oh, who's that man?
03:24Man?
03:25Rather odd-looking. He was just leaving as I arrived.
03:27Drove off in a rather wonderful black car.
03:29Sorry, no-one pulled round without my wear on.
03:31Only you.
03:32How's your car, by the way?
03:34Remind me to check those brakes of yours.
03:36You sound like you're feeling very spongy.
03:39BIRDS CHIRP
03:43Boys and girls, this cactus has not had a fowl for 200 years!
03:47200 years without a fowl! What can I do?
03:50Keep mooring!
03:52Of course, keep mooring!
03:59Ah, Chief Inspector.
04:01Madame Jappe, she's still not with you?
04:03Her sister's got flu and she doesn't want to spread the germs.
04:07Ah, the old fortune teller.
04:09We got out of Tannersworth?
04:11I think not, mon ami.
04:13Although it is a subject most intriguing for the study.
04:15There she is again.
04:17It is her.
04:18Molly, um, what's her name?
04:20Dean.
04:21The fashion model.
04:23I wish I brought the 150 with me now.
04:25The new toy.
04:27I give it to, perhaps, three weeks.
04:32Ah, I missed her.
04:34She's gone.
04:37How much are they?
04:39One a month for little bears and two shillings for the others.
04:45What?
04:46What are you playing at?
04:48Molly.
04:55Claude, will you get away?
04:58Darling!
04:59Oh, I thought you'd got lost.
05:03Look who I just ran into.
05:04Is that you under there, Claude?
05:06You didn't tell me you were going into politics.
05:08You know, you're just the man I wanted to see.
05:10You know that nest of wasps you cleared out for me last summer?
05:13They're back again, with a vengeance this time.
05:15Thousands of the blighters.
05:16Driving me absolutely potty in their garden.
05:18Oh, right you are. I'll see what I can do.
05:20I'll run over and pop round Friday morning.
05:22Fine.
05:23Better get back for your next show.
05:24I think the audience is getting restless.
05:27Now, who likes to go to...
05:29Dinner!
05:37Let's have some tea.
05:41Yes.
05:44He hasn't been bothering you, has he?
05:46Claude Langton?
05:48Of course not.
05:50Two teas, please.
05:51Certainly.
05:55All he wants now is for the two of us to be happy.
05:59Honestly.
06:00What's past is past.
06:02Thank you very much.
06:03Enjoy your tea.
06:06Well, I'll be jiggered.
06:08What is it?
06:09I don't know that egghead anyway.
06:11I see also arising...
06:13The problems where the matters of health are concerned.
06:16You're right.
06:17I've had these pains in my stomach all day long.
06:19They're an absolute murder.
06:21Did someone say murder?
06:23Monsieur Poirot, how are you?
06:24As well as ever I hope.
06:26Monsieur...
06:27Monsieur John Harrison.
06:31What an unexpected pleasure.
06:33It seems an absolute age since we last met.
06:35I suppose it must have been at father's funeral.
06:37Oh, forgive me.
06:38This is my fiancée, Molly.
06:40Molly, may I introduce Monsieur Hercule Poirot,
06:42the famous detective?
06:44How do you do?
06:45Enchanté, mademoiselle.
06:47Ah, Hastings, the father of Monsieur Harrison
06:49was my first and dearest friend in this country.
06:51And Monsieur Harrison is himself the writer
06:53of some repute, n'est-ce pas?
06:54Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:55You've had published, now, combien?
06:57Three books?
06:58Oh, really?
06:59What were they called?
07:00I might have read one.
07:01Well, let's see.
07:02The first was Dualism and Determinism,
07:03an exploration of classical Platonic philosophy.
07:05Then there was Aristotelian Ethics,
07:07a short guide to the metaphysical works of...
07:09Oh, Monsieur Poirot, you read tea leaves.
07:11How exciting.
07:13But you must read mine, please.
07:14Bien sûr.
07:18Alarme.
07:19Merci.
07:20Please to sit.
07:27Voilà.
07:29Excuse the lipstick.
07:30Ah.
07:31Merci.
07:36Mademoiselle, you have drunk from this cup?
07:38Yes.
07:40What is it?
07:41What do you see?
07:45Of course, I may be quite wrong.
07:47I hope that I am.
07:51But I see looming the dark clouds,
07:54and, ah, the troubled waters.
07:59Mademoiselle, I see the times ahead most dangerous for you both.
08:10I think you'd better call the doctor.
08:14Shall we do it again?
08:15Yes!
08:16No.
08:17No.
08:18No.
08:19No.
08:20No.
08:21No.
08:22No.
08:24No.
08:35You are in the safe hands now, mon ami.
08:37What time is the operation?
08:39I said about six o'clock.
08:45About six o'clock.
08:48Well, I hope it's not too much of an ordeal, old chap.
08:50When I had mine out, it was absolute hell.
08:52For a week afterwards, I got this stabbing pain,
08:54all down my right hand side.
08:56Histings, Histings.
08:57I think the chief inspector would like Natalie to rest now.
09:00Ah.
09:12So the prediction of Poirot, it becomes true, n'est-ce pas?
09:15Oh, come on.
09:16All that fortune-telling stuff's baloney.
09:18You know it.
09:19You think so, Histings?
09:20You did see something in Molly Dean's cup, though, didn't you?
09:23It wasn't tea leaves.
09:25Histings, I wonder if you can recall
09:27what was the colour of lipstick Mademoiselle Dean was wearing this afternoon.
09:30Ah.
09:31Rather pale pink, I think.
09:33It matched her scarf.
09:34D'accord.
09:36But when I examined closely the tea cup,
09:38I see not only the traces of the pink lipstick,
09:41but that also of another colour.
09:43The deep, bright red.
09:50BIRDS CHIRP
10:20DOOR CLOSES
10:51DOORBELL RINGS
11:12Have a nice lunch with Monsieur Poirot, won't you?
11:14And do give him my apologies.
11:17No luck with the petrol, I'm afraid.
11:19They're hardy little devils.
11:20I'll have to try them with something stronger.
11:22Maybe I'll pop back and give it another go, Wednesday evening?
11:25Er, Wednesday, yes, fine.
11:28Just off, Molly.
11:29You couldn't be an angel in trouble.
11:30Oh, no, Claude.
11:31I'm not going that way today.
11:33Sorry.
11:36See you tonight, darling.
11:41For goodness' sake, drive carefully!
11:50Oh, it's all right if I take in early lunch then, Mr Poirot.
11:53We're working on toning up the calf and thigh muscles today.
11:56Oh, yes, Miss Lennon.
11:57Under no circumstances must you be late for your keep fit lesson.
12:01Sacre!
12:09You know, it wouldn't do you any harm
12:11to try one or two exercises, Mr Poirot.
12:17Oh, thanks, Poirot.
12:20Use your vigour to keep your figure?
12:23Absurd!
12:26There's nothing wrong with the body of Poirot.
12:28It is in a peak of condition.
12:30Now, have I got everything?
12:32Developer, fixer, glazing solution, stopwatch.
12:37Right.
12:38You're not planning to use the bathroom
12:40for the next half hour or so, are you, Poirot?
12:43Well, just let me check with my diary, Hastings.
12:46No, it would seem not.
12:48Good.
12:49If you need me, you know where I am.
13:03Taxi!
13:04Oh, that would be lovely.
13:07I'll see you on Wednesday.
13:08All right.
13:12Taxi!
13:14Taxi!
13:17Whitehaven Mansions, please, driver.
13:19Oh!
13:20Oh, I'm sorry, did I just...
13:21No, no, it's all right.
13:22Did I hear you say Whitehaven Mansions?
13:24That's correct.
13:37I got some interesting tonal variations there
13:39by using a low-contrast paper.
13:42Now, this is not good, Hastings.
13:49No, this is not good at all.
13:51A bit overexposed, you think?
13:53Maybe I should have stopped down to F-16.
13:57No, no, no, no, no, no, Poirot.
13:59Always you put the interpretation's most sinister on matters
14:02which may be quite innocent.
14:03Sorry?
14:04No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
14:08Always you put the interpretation's most sinister on matters
14:10which may be quite innocent.
14:11Sorry?
14:14Mr Poirot, what do you think?
14:15We found ourselves running for the same taxi.
14:17Monsieur Harrison, bonjour.
14:19Bonjour.
14:20Mademoiselle Dean, she is not with you.
14:21I know, she's frightfully sorry.
14:23This job interview came up at the last minute.
14:25Some out-of-the-way hotel up north.
14:27She had to dash straight there.
14:38Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
14:56I invite you, this is my...
14:59Well, in that case, you must come and have tea.
15:01Both of you, next week.
15:02This time of year it's an absolute...
15:04Mr Harrison, telephone call for you.
15:06I think there's been an accident.
15:09It's all right, darling. I'm fine.
15:13Well, I'm still a bit shaky, but...
15:17No, I...
15:20I don't know what happened.
15:21The brakes just suddenly...
15:24I know.
15:26Look, they say it's going to take till Monday to get the car back on the road, so...
15:32I suppose I'll just have to stay here till then.
15:34Yes. Yes, of course.
15:38Yes, that's fine, darling.
15:40Bye.
15:46No, Mr Dean, she's all right.
15:48Yes, thank God.
15:51Yes, she's fine.
15:52She's fine.
16:04Bit of a bind being stuck up there in that hotel all weekend.
16:09Still, you weren't hurt, that's the main thing.
16:11Just a few scratches under my right knee.
16:13Putting hemlines low this year.
16:15Yes, quite.
16:17Come on, let's have some tea.
16:23Mind how you get on the bottom there, Poirot.
16:25That's wasp country.
16:27Nasty great nestled just by that old tree.
16:30I've already been stung three times.
16:32What did you say, mon ami?
16:33I said, mind how you...
16:34Ah! Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:37Oh, my God.
16:39I say, Poirot, are you all right?
16:45Let's have a look.
16:47The open air, it should be closed during the summer.
16:51Captain Hastings, he wonders why I have a hatred
16:53for these crawling, buzzing things.
16:55And the reason is, they're always trying to kill me.
16:58I had old Claude around here last week.
17:00Tried to take it out for me, but no dice.
17:02He's coming back to have another go Wednesday evening.
17:05Claude?
17:06Langton.
17:07Sorry, I thought you met him at the fete.
17:09No.
17:10Chap in the clown outfit.
17:12Sculptor.
17:13He has a studio not far from here.
17:16He and Molly were engaged to be married.
17:18Yeah.
17:19About a year ago now.
17:21But then, well, one of those things.
17:23They drifted apart, we drifted closer together.
17:26The great thing is, there's absolutely no hard feelings.
17:29Makes you realize how lucky you are, I suppose.
17:32Well, then.
17:33Teaspoons.
17:48Oh, my God.
18:19Here we are.
18:25It's tomorrow evening, 7.30 for 8 at the Portchester.
18:27Do come along. I'm sure you'll have a ball.
18:29Oh, yes, rather.
18:30I've never been to a fashion show before.
18:31It sounds like great fun.
18:32Yes, indeed.
18:33And thank you both for an afternoon that has been most enjoyable.
18:37Oh.
18:38You know, you really should pop into a chemist's with that one.
18:40I mean, it's a great idea.
18:41I mean, it's a great idea.
18:42I mean, it's a great idea.
18:43I mean, it's a great idea.
18:44I mean, it's a great idea.
18:45I mean, it's a great idea.
18:46You know, you really should pop into a chemist's with that wasp sting.
18:48Yes, you should.
18:49Mrs. Henderson's.
18:50It's just down in Toparth, near the pub.
18:52She'll have some cream or something.
18:54Ease the soreness a bit.
18:55Ah, oui.
18:56The chemist's.
18:57Mais, certainement, we will call in on our way.
19:00Au revoir.
19:01Bye-bye.
19:02Bye-bye.
19:05You know, I wish that I could stop worrying.
19:07But the questions, they keep buzzing around my head like the wasps are on the nest.
19:11The questions?
19:12Ask yourself, Hastings.
19:15The breaks of Mademoiselle Dean.
19:17Why do they suddenly fail her, only a few hours after they have been examined by Monsieur John Harrison?
19:22And Monsieur Claude Langton.
19:24Why was he unable to destroy the nest of the wasps in the garden of Monsieur Harrison?
19:29And of most significance, Hastings, who put the petrol in the water-butt, and why?
19:34Petrol in the water-butt?
19:35Sorry, Poirot, I'm afraid I failed to get the drift of all this.
19:38No, Hastings.
19:39Why do you suppose, Monsieur Claude Langton, he forces his attentions upon the Mademoiselle Dean with so much passion at the garden fair?
19:45I don't know.
19:46The kiss, Hastings.
19:48The bright red make-up of the clown face that was still upon her lips?
19:52Oh, I see, the carp. Yes, I'd forgotten about that.
19:56I say, the poor girl.
19:59So you think that he was...
20:00Hastings.
20:01The chemist's.
20:09Good afternoon.
20:21We are told to ask for Madame Henderson.
20:23I'm Mrs. Henderson.
20:25And I am Hercule Poirot.
20:27I know.
20:29What can I do for you?
20:31I have the misfortune to be stung by the wasp in the garden of Monsieur John Harrison.
20:36It is on my neck.
20:37I'm afraid it is becoming quite sore.
20:39I'll get you some colourless iodine to put on it.
20:42If you wouldn't mind waiting a second.
20:43Pas de deux.
20:48Go through and talk to her.
20:52Hastings.
20:53Hm?
20:54Talk to her.
20:55What about?
20:56Anything.
21:03You run this place all on your own, do you?
21:07Since my husband died a couple of years ago.
21:11Not much to run, really.
21:15A nice chap, John Harrison.
21:17Do you know him at all?
21:18Yes.
21:19He gave me a copy of one of his books.
21:23Aristotelian Ethics.
21:25I found it very perceptive.
21:27Have you read that one?
21:29Not yet, no.
21:31He's married to that fashion model Molly Dean, I gather.
21:36It's a funny match.
21:37It's like Albert Einstein and Ginger Rogers.
21:41That's love, I suppose.
21:42Yes.
21:45Well, they, um...
21:48Did you want something else?
21:50Uh...
21:52Oh, sorry.
21:53No, forgive me.
21:58There we are, then.
22:00It's very good, but use it sparingly.
22:02Oui.
22:03There's ninepence, please.
22:06En passant, madame.
22:08You would not know, perhaps, where we might find the monsieur Claude Langton?
22:12Oh, yes.
22:13He's one of the more avant-garde artists who live around here.
22:16You'll find him in the new house around the corner.
22:18The one with the zigzags on the front door.
22:20You can't miss it.
22:22Merci beaucoup, madame.
22:23You have been most helpful.
22:27Au revoir.
22:28Au revoir.
22:53Private detective, you say?
22:55I'm looking around here investigating a crime of some sort.
22:58Well, perhaps.
23:00A serious crime?
23:01A crime of the most serious there is, monsieur.
23:06You mean?
23:07Murder.
23:09But I haven't heard anything about a murder.
23:11No, you would not have heard of it, because as yet it has not taken place.
23:17You see, if one can investigate a murder before it happens,
23:21one might even, well, with a little idea, prevent it.
23:27I don't quite see what this has to do with me.
23:34Mademoiselle Molly Dean.
23:37You and she were once engaged to be married, n'est-ce pas?
23:40Look, that was over a year ago.
23:42Water under the bridge.
23:43We're nothing more than good friends now.
23:45Indeed, monsieur Langton.
23:46Absolutely stunning outfit.
23:49I still keep some of her own photos about the place.
23:51That doesn't mean I still...
23:56All right.
23:57What do you want me to say?
24:00I still love her, all right?
24:03Desperately.
24:04I'm nothing to her any more.
24:06That's just something I'm going to have to live with.
24:08It won't be easy.
24:09It'll be damned hard.
24:12But murder?
24:13Oh, no, monsieur Poirot.
24:15I'm afraid you've got it all wrong this time.
24:18You see, Johnny's the best friend I've got in the world.
24:21I couldn't harm him.
24:23I just couldn't.
24:35If you ask me, all this fortune-telling's going to his head.
24:38He's talking about investigating a murder now that hasn't even happened yet.
24:44Making a mountain out of a molehill, if you ask me.
24:49Ah, cet prestige!
24:53I cannot enter even my own bathroom
24:55without walking into the hanging gardens of Babylon.
24:57Oh, sorry. They're probably dry by now.
24:59And I am not making the hills out of the mole mounds.
25:03No, no, Hastings.
25:05Not this time the evidence. It is too strong.
25:08What evidence?
25:10On the top shelf in the studio of monsieur Claude Langton.
25:13You did not see it, but I knew it would be there.
25:16I knew it would be there because I saw the record of its purchase at the chemist's shop.
25:20Excuse me.
25:21You knew what would be there?
25:24The poison, Hastings.
25:26The cyanide and the potassium.
25:28A little stronger than the petrol for the killing of the wasps.
25:34All in a single stroke, a thousand deaths.
25:37And then, perhaps so easily, a thousand and one.
25:42Combining enormous charm and distinction
25:46in fabric as well as in line,
25:48the merry widow.
25:50A delightful design, beautifully moulded in black crepe
25:54with clever white beading on the sleeves.
25:57The cape of self-rolled black chiffon
26:00simply floats around in this fork.
26:03Softly feminine with a touch of elegance.
26:12An irresistible choice for those late summer evenings.
26:16La Boheme.
26:18An outfit in short pink and gold sari silk.
26:22And Prelude.
26:24Skillfully contoured in gold sequined lace
26:27in that ivory silk.
26:31A revelation this season.
26:34Mermaid.
26:35A breathtaking bias-cut dress
26:38divinely sculpted from green and silver velvet lamé
26:41with a deep back décolletage that is utterly sublime.
26:45The pale aquamarine satin cowl
26:48is attached to the shoulders in floating panels
26:51and the shoulders held by de Monte clips.
26:54A creation that is already conquering the United States
26:59from New York to Hollywood.
27:02So discreet, yet so grand,
27:05is Gloriana,
27:07infusing the classical grace of a gold satin sheet dress...
27:12Hastings, we must go backstage.
27:15Sorry?
27:16Immediately.
27:18Notice the sheer perfection of line
27:21and the rhythm of movement.
27:25Weekend.
27:27Teams, a radiant gown of pearl white crepe.
27:33So cute.
27:36S'il vous plaît,
27:38we leave the room and walk over to the right.
27:42On the right, please.
27:44I'm an artist.
27:46I have a lot of artistic talent.
27:49I'm a painter.
27:51I'm a sculptor.
27:53I'm a sculptor.
27:56I'm a sculptor.
27:58I'm a sculptor.
28:00I'm a sculptor.
28:02S'il vous plaît, we look for Mademoiselle Mollet-Din.
28:06Oh, she's finished. I think she went off with some gentleman.
28:11Merci beaucoup.
28:13Mademoiselle, that dress.
28:16Sir, we can't stop.
28:20Come, Hastings.
28:32Quick, Hastings, your camera.
29:03How is it now?
29:05It's still pounding.
29:09Delayed effect from that crash, maybe.
29:12Well, I'll be downstairs if you need me.
30:02No, I can't say he means a thing to me.
30:29No one from our rogue's gallery, or I'd recognise him.
30:33What's this all about, anyway?
30:35Something going on I ought to know about.
30:37No, nothing that you should be concerning yourself with, Chief Inspector.
30:41Especially in your present condition.
30:44You are feeling better now, yes?
30:46No, I feel worse.
30:49Talk about going to hell and back.
30:53I don't reckon they put me to sleep properly.
30:56I swear I felt every incision that surgeon made when he was cutting into my...
31:00Hastings, I really think we ought to be going now.
31:03Madame Jap, she is coming to collect you later on this morning, yes?
31:07Half past eleven.
31:08Well, we look forward to seeing you up and about again very soon.
31:13Au revoir.
31:19Thanks for the chocolates.
31:27It is no use, Hastings.
31:31It will not go away.
31:34Everything has happened and yet nothing has happened.
31:39Certainement, this is the most difficult moment of my career.
31:43To solve the crime that does not exist.
31:47Right, I'll just stop again then.
31:50I'm sure you won't come along, Mr Poirot.
31:53Might ease a bit of that tension.
31:55No.
31:56Well, if you change your mind, it's 35 Devonshire Street.
32:01They have three classes daily.
32:03Fully comprehensive physical fitness programme, exercising the whole body.
32:11Not just the thumbs.
32:26I'm terribly sorry.
32:28Are you all right?
32:42And you are quite certain that this is the same man, Chief Inspector?
32:46Yes.
32:47Well, thank you very much for telephoning.
32:50Au revoir.
32:56At the hospital.
33:01Devonshire Street.
33:09Devonshire Street.
33:1132, 15.
33:1332.
33:1615.
33:1815.
33:24Ah.
33:27The pieces, they begin to connect.
33:34Au revoir.
33:40Where are you off to now?
33:42To find out if I am right or wrong, Heston.
33:46Well, I suppose that leaves me with nothing to do then.
33:49Unfortunately, we...
33:51Oh, no, no, Heston.
33:53You can buy for me some washing soda.
33:57Washing soda?
34:17What a pleasant surprise.
34:19Bonjour, Monsieur Harrison.
34:21Mademoiselle Molly Dean, she's not with you this afternoon?
34:24Molly? She's inside.
34:26Got a migraine or something.
34:28Seems to have come on after the show last night.
34:30I expect she'll be fine.
34:33And...
34:35And you?
34:37And you?
34:39And you?
34:41And you?
34:43And you?
34:45And...
34:47Mr. Claude Langton?
34:49At what time is he due to arrive to destroy your nest of wasps?
34:537.30, he said.
34:55I imagine he'll be on time?
34:57On time?
34:59The man whose dearest love you stole away, oui?
35:02He comes here tonight.
35:04To the home of his rival, armed with a deadly poison.
35:08Just what are you suggesting?
35:11That Claude Langton might try...
35:13My God, this is England.
35:15Jealous suitors don't go around murdering people.
35:18Besides, Claude Langton wouldn't have had a fly.
35:22No.
35:24Yet even now he prepares to take the lives of several thousand wasps.
35:29There, by the root of the tree.
35:32The wasps returning home, placenta at the end of the day.
35:36In one hour and a half there will be the total destruction and they know it now.
35:40For the wasps...
35:42There is no Hercule Poirot to warn them.
35:50Eh bien, the sun it is still warm.
35:52The evening it is most pleasant for taking a stroll by the river.
35:55You would not object if I come back later to watch this destruction of the wasps?
35:59Well, no. Of course, be my guest.
36:02I return at 7.30.
36:12I return at 7.30.
36:42I return at 7.30.
37:12I return at 7.30.
37:13I return at 7.30.
37:42I return at 7.30.
37:44I return at 7.30.
37:46I return at 7.30.
38:13I return at 7.30.
38:26I return at 7.30.
38:28Miss Dean and Mr. Claude Langton, they are both gone, yes?
38:42Yes.
38:43Yes, they're both gone.
38:48And how are you feeling now, monsieur?
38:53Me?
38:54Fine.
38:55Why shouldn't I be?
38:56What are you drawing at?
38:57No, no, no.
38:58No?
38:59I see you have had some tea, n'est-ce pas?
39:06You remember the garden fate?
39:08When I look into the future?
39:11You will permit if we do the same?
39:13Please?
39:20Turn it around.
39:25No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
39:27Because this time it is different.
39:31This time, we look backwards, yes?
39:35Into the past.
39:39Because the past, it is clear as crystal, n'est-ce pas?
39:45As clear as the crystals of cyanide poison that are in these cups.
39:50Oh, no, no, no, monsieur, this does not shock you.
39:53For it is you who put them there.
39:57It is no use, mon ami, I know everything.
40:01I know just as you knew that the love affair between mademoiselle Dean and monsieur Claude Langton
40:05is far from being over as they claimed.
40:09During the past few weeks, your fiancée, she has been drifting back to her old love,
40:14is that not so?
40:16In public, she pretends to reject him.
40:19But in private, the old flames are being rekindled.
40:25Of course, there is nothing wrong with the brakes of her car.
40:29You have already checked them.
40:31No.
40:33Quite deliberately, mademoiselle Dean, she drives the car into the tree
40:37in order to spend two days away from you,
40:39two days which she will spend in the company of monsieur Claude Langton.
40:44Because she knows it will break your heart.
40:47She cannot bring herself to reveal to you her secret affair.
40:51But the signs are there for those who will see.
40:56In the house of monsieur Claude Langton,
40:59there is a photograph of his former sweetheart.
41:01He tells to me that his photograph, it is an old one,
41:03and that she now no longer cares for him.
41:06But he lies.
41:08It has to be recently taken.
41:11Because in the photograph, she is wearing the fashion, modern,
41:15which a few months ago would not even have been designed.
41:21The camera, it never lies, yes?
41:25When I see your face in a moment unguarded,
41:27I see in it a deep, deep hatred.
41:29I have seen that look before, my friend.
41:31I know to what lengths it can drive a man.
41:35This evening you tell me that monsieur Claude Langton,
41:37he is due to arrive at 7.30.
41:39But that is not true.
41:42No.
41:44He was coming earlier than that.
41:47At 7.
41:49Right, let's have another go at them, shall we?
41:52If this doesn't do the trick, nothing will.
41:55He arrived on time.
41:58Set about his work straight away.
42:03While he wasn't looking, it was, as he said,
42:08I slipped some cyanide into the cup.
42:15Oh, God, what have I done?
42:24Mon ami.
42:26I have told you that I know everything.
42:30I also know that you are a sick man.
42:34And that you have been visiting a doctor in Devonshire Street.
42:38The surgeon, Mr. Belvedere.
42:45You have just come from his surgery on Friday morning
42:48when you meet my secretary, Miss Lemon, just down the road?
42:52This afternoon.
42:55I also made a visit to the same doctor.
42:59What?
43:01He is not difficult to find.
43:05I have in my pocket his photograph.
43:09He tells to me that you have the two months to live.
43:14Is that not so?
43:16No.
43:18No.
43:20He said by October it could all...
43:24Of course he is breaking the confidentiality of his client.
43:28But he thought it would be in your own interest
43:31if he was to meet with Mademoiselle Dean at a fashion show
43:34and break to her the tragic news.
43:38That's...
43:40why she was in such a state when she came here.
43:44But it was only when Claude arrived that she...
43:48told me how much she knew.
43:52Claude!
43:54Oh, God!
43:56Molly, what is it?
44:01I'm sorry, John.
44:04I'm sorry, John.
44:07You see, I know.
44:09Dr. Belvedere, last night he told me everything.
44:12I see.
44:16John, I'm so, so sorry.
44:19You're not sorry.
44:21You're not sorry at all, either of you.
44:24Get out.
44:26Out of here and out of my life.
44:28What's left of it.
44:31Go on, Langton, take her.
44:33It's what you've always wanted.
44:35What you've always planned.
44:38Well, take her and get out!
44:49I watched them leave the garden.
44:53Waited till I was sure that they were gone.
44:58And then...
45:00you swallowed the poison.
45:15When did you first suspect that...
45:18I was...
45:20When I saw the petrol in the water bath?
45:23Because that was the first stage in your plan, was it not?
45:27When Mr. Claude Langton, he comes around to destroy the nest of wasps...
45:30with a syringe of petrol, he fails.
45:33Why?
45:35It is simple.
45:37Because you have emptied most of the contents of the can into the water bath...
45:41and then filled the can with the plain tap water.
45:44You know that when Mr. Langton comes back, it will be with a cyanide.
45:48The cyanide that you will use for murder.
45:53Murder? Suicide?
45:56Murder!
46:00The death that you planned for yourself was to be quick and easy.
46:03But the death that you planned for Mr. Claude Langton...
46:05was the worst death that any man can die.
46:08He bought the poison. His name is there in the book.
46:11After he has left your house, you are found dead, the cyanide in your cup...
46:14and Mr. Claude Langton, he hangs.
46:17That was your plan, was it not, Monsieur?
46:22A few minutes from now...
46:24it will all be over.
46:29I do not think so, my friend.
46:31It is most unusual for a man to die from swallowing the washing soda.
46:38What?
46:40Well, the substitution was not difficult.
46:43Monsieur Claude Langton, he really ought to purchase a stronger lock for his back door.
46:54Tomorrow, I...
46:58I don't know what to say.
47:04Mon ami, you are a man who is dying.
47:07You have lost the girl you love.
47:09But there is one thing that you are not.
47:13You are not a murderer, deep down within your heart.
47:18I don't even want to kill the wasps anymore.
47:22The fact is...
47:24I have become quite used to them.
47:27I have become quite used to them.
47:46You stopped by again, my dear, before?
47:49Before very long, mon ami.
47:57And tomorrow, I...
48:02Thank God you came.