First broadcast 3rd February 1991.
Poirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Ian McCulloch as Jonathan Maltravers
Geraldine Alexander as Susan Maltravers
Alastair Duncan as Captain Black (as Neil Duncan)
Anita Carey as Miss Rawlinson
Desmond Barrit as Samuel Naughton
Ralph Watson as Danvers
Edward Jewesbury as Dr Bernard
Geoffrey Swann as Police Sergeant
Hilary Sesta as Doctor's Receptionist
David Lloyd as Museum Attendant
Pat Keen as Civil Defence Organiser
Richard Bebb as Newsreader
Poirot is drawn into a case where a man is found dead on the grounds of his estate, apparently frightened to death by the spirits that haunt it.
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
Hugh Fraser as Captain Hastings
Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp
Ian McCulloch as Jonathan Maltravers
Geraldine Alexander as Susan Maltravers
Alastair Duncan as Captain Black (as Neil Duncan)
Anita Carey as Miss Rawlinson
Desmond Barrit as Samuel Naughton
Ralph Watson as Danvers
Edward Jewesbury as Dr Bernard
Geoffrey Swann as Police Sergeant
Hilary Sesta as Doctor's Receptionist
David Lloyd as Museum Attendant
Pat Keen as Civil Defence Organiser
Richard Bebb as Newsreader
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00:49I'm here darling. I'm here. It's alright
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01:23Shouldn't be out here. You know what dr. Bernard said so soon after the operation. Yes, I know what dr.
01:30Bernard said stay inside get plenty of sleep. Well, that may be good advice for a tortoise Susan
01:41Damn this infernal ulcer darling. You're still weak
01:45It'll mend itself. It just takes time. You've just got to learn to be patient
01:50I
01:54Miss it
01:59Susan
02:09It's up there again that face
02:20Oh
02:28You heard it that time Jack don't tell me you didn't hear it mad horrible cackling she was up there
02:37Up there like before
02:50I
03:10Well, this is it what was his name again
03:14Norton
03:15Samuel James Norton, welcome to my hotel. This is the greatest day of my life. Let me take your bags
03:20Thank you. We received your letter this morning and as you see we came straight here
03:26I've got two of my best rooms already in waiting for you gentlemen. Thank you. Mr
03:30Norton now in your letter you state that the three farm workers have been poisoned
03:33The syringe of the doctor has gone missing and that it is only I have killed Poirot who can solve the mystery
03:39That's right, sir, but there's plenty of time
03:42How about a nice pot of tea first, oh, that's very kind you don't do sandwiches at all
03:47Mr. Norton in a matter of murder. There is never the time to lose the facts of this case if you please, right?
03:53You are sir. It's all here
03:55the first 200 pages anyway
04:03The needle in the haystack
04:05A new murder mystery by Clarissa Norton. I use a woman's name seems to help them sell better
04:12It's a corker of a plot only I've got myself into a bit of a stew with the ending
04:16So I thought I'll drop him a line
04:18Perhaps he'll come and sort it out to me. So I said to my wife you can but ask and
04:24Blow me down here you are. I
04:29Did mention it was a book in the letter
04:36These things
04:41125 miles these things we come on the wild gooseberry hunt and now we have missed our last trainer
04:46We cannot leave until the morning
04:49Cheer up for anything's to do to while away. I say that looks like fun
04:58Come on
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05:03Genuine death masks of local murderers I
05:07Say this is interesting Harry. They got them by taking actual wax impressions of the killers faces after that execution
05:14Pretty grisly stuff. Eh, well, I find it most curious Hastings this English passion for perusing a collection of the glorified scarecrows
05:22So far, I have not seen one likeness that is truly accurate
05:26Oh
05:36Sorry, sir, we just closed it. I'll have to ask you to leave. Are you coming?
05:42This way, please
05:51So
05:54Never quite as realistic in the flesh somehow are they
06:03Pain there
06:06Well, I don't think there's any serious damage but for goodness sake be more careful Jonathan
06:11You know, these things can perforate
06:14It's not just a question of diet
06:17Any stress or exertion is strictly taboo
06:21Instances of post-operative erosion
06:23All right. Thank you. Jeffrey here end of the lesson. Oh, now
06:28Why don't you join us for dinner?
06:32Will you be wanting a table in the restaurant at all? Oh, we do stop serving at 9. Thanks. I'm actually here to see some friends
06:41I'll be dining with them tonight. Oh, yes. I know it sir. Well, have a good evening
06:50Mr.
06:52Poirot
06:54Are you working all out now my who's done it? No, mr.
06:57Norton, I do not give another thought to your who's done it the brain of our cube
07:01Well, he's like a finely tuned engine of the motor car. He does not run on the cheap low-grade fuel
07:07Not to worry. Yeah
07:09Give you something to read in bed. I'll just get your keys for you
07:14Someone just back from Africa
07:20Kenya actually just a small present for someone if you'll excuse me with you
07:42I've picked it up in one of the markets. It was rather well done something another artist would appreciate
07:51And it's actually supposed to be some sort of talisman, you know evil spirits of the departed all that hook'em
08:02I'm sorry. Have I said something?
08:09Andrew I don't think you've met Jeffrey Bernard my medic
08:13And this is captain black an old family friend just over from East Africa
08:18Oh, really, where were you stationed in Kenya? Uh-huh. Yeah, like Victoria. Shall we go in now?
08:22Ah
08:41We're just about to have dinner mr. Robinson, why don't you join us?
08:46Thank You mr. Mel Trevor's
08:48The books are still in a bit of a mess. I'm afraid
08:51Well, perhaps you could join us later
09:10It's as though she's mocking me and then just as suddenly it stops
09:17As if I completely imagined it all
09:23So, let me get this clear
09:25What you're saying is there in the garden? There's the ghost of a dead girl
09:30up in a tree
09:32Well, the story is that 50 or so years ago a young teenage girl killed herself here in these grounds
09:39She'd been jilted by a lover or some such thing
09:43Anyway, she climbed to the top of that massive cedar out there and
09:50Threw herself off
09:54And over the years people in the village
09:58Well, you know how these superstitions take root
10:02In my experience of these cases a lot of its auto suggestive
10:06People believe that they've witnessed some sort of paranormal. Dr. Bernard. I know what I saw
10:12Oh
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11:12I'm just off to the bank now, then I'll see you later
11:42I
11:49Was chilly morning
12:13Oh
12:28Finally throughout the United Kingdom preparations are nearing completion for the national civil defense exercise
12:34His majesty's government
12:41Like the top eight things I am turning and spinning all of the night and then at 3 o'clock in the morning
12:47Hey now the ultimate desperation. Ah, miss you're not then
12:52This really is unquiet. There is such a tangle of the confused threads. I admit surrender
12:57Everyone has the alibi that is unbreakable
13:00Who could possibly have committed the murders I know that's what stumped me I
13:05Seem to have backed myself into a corner this time and I can't get out
13:10Not to worry here was the accommodation. All right
13:13No, miss. You're not then
13:15The accommodation was all wrong
13:19the duck feather pillows
13:22Feels as if the ducks are stealing them
13:25It looks as if captain black didn't enjoy his stay much either come on
13:29Booked in for a full week last night paid up in advance
13:32And now this morning he's gone
13:35Perhaps he was frightened away by ghosts
13:37Now then breakfast, how about a nice kipper? They're fresh today
13:43Mighty Sam two slices of bread toasted on one side only if you please
13:48Ghosts did you say? Oh, yes haunted house miles the manor where he went last night. They say it's full of them
13:55You have seen them yourself
13:57Well, no, not personally. I haven't of course. How do you know they are fresh?
14:02Sorry
14:03the kippers
14:07They're fresh, all right, we get them delivered twice a week from Grimsby so it is the place of the untold evil
14:15Crawling with the spirits of the living dead
14:18Grimsby Bastard Manor
14:24Monsieur my breakfast if you please we both have the urgent train to catch
14:27Is mr. Maltraver still outside I need to have a word with him I suppose he must be is it 11 already
14:34He's usually come in for his pills by now
14:36Madam!
14:38Madam!
14:40Madam!
14:42Madam!
14:44Madam!
14:46Madam!
14:48Madam!
14:50Madam!
14:52Madam!
14:54Madam!
14:57Madam!
14:59It's Mr. Maltravers! I think you better come quick!
15:21Come on!
15:23Move along!
15:26Emergency!
15:28Shift yourself!
15:30Allez! Allez!
15:32Don't you come that matey!
15:34You just move back!
15:36Don?
15:38Isn't that Hercule Poirot?
15:40Right on our doorstep!
15:46Nothing's been touched sir. That's just how I found him
15:48Thank you
15:50The doctor warned us all it could happen
15:52That wretched ulcer could rupture
15:54He must have choked on the blood
15:56If only he'd listened
15:58Taken a little advice
16:02Fate can be so cruel at times
16:16Mr. Danvers
16:18You say that you discovered the body at 11
16:20But before this
16:23When was the last time that you saw him alive
16:25Your employer
16:27About half past nine
16:29He'd just plonked himself on the old stone seat
16:31By the edge
16:33He often went there for a little snooze after breakfast
16:35The stone seat
16:43His poor young wife
16:47So heartbreaking
16:49They hadn't even been married two years
16:52Excuse me officer
16:54Met at one of them society parties up in London
16:56Real whirlwind romance
16:58If ever two people were in love
17:02And the other lady?
17:04Mr. Rawlinson
17:06She goes back a lot longer
17:08She'd been a secretary
17:10Must have been 20 years
17:12Well secretary
17:14She practically ran his affairs for him
17:16He wasn't the most
17:18Organised of gentlemen
17:20Terrible sight though
17:22Something about that look in his eyes
17:24Almost as if he'd seen a ghost
17:28Yes
17:40Come along my dear
17:42Take one of these
17:50Ah
18:04What have you found
18:08What I was looking for
18:10I don't see anything
18:12Look at that
18:20There are more
18:26Looking puzzled Poirot
18:30Can't see your problem
18:32Poor chap had a stomach condition
18:34You heard what the ambulance man said
18:36Internal hemorrhage
18:38Plain as day
18:40Caused him to choke to death
18:42That is the conclusion
18:44But perhaps it is too obvious
18:46You noticed of course
18:49Bridges
18:51And you cannot have failed to notice
18:53The mud across the back of his shoes
18:55You put those two facts together Hastings
18:57And you reach the conclusion
18:59That is most disturbing
19:01The body of the dead man
19:03Was dragged physically
19:05From the stone seat
19:07To the foot of the tree
19:09Good lord
19:11I think it is time that we telephone
19:13The chief inspector Jap at Scotland Yard
19:19We were in the south of France
19:23Two months ago
19:27That's when it got really bad
19:29We had to cut short our holiday
19:33Rush back so they could operate
19:35They said so long as he rested
19:37Took things easy
19:39There was every chance
19:41He'd make a full recovery
19:43But
19:45You couldn't keep Jack indoors like that
19:48All day long
19:50He'd suffocate
19:52Go mad
19:54My dear, do you think it's what
19:56It was her
19:58I know it
20:00She killed him
20:02She?
20:04Madame Maltraves
20:06I think it would be best if you all left now
20:08She's still in a state of shock
20:10Up there
20:12In the tree
20:14That awful
20:17Living woman
20:19That's what he saw
20:21That's what
20:23Frightened him to death
20:31Life insurance policy, Poirot
20:43Fifty thousand pounds
20:45That is indeed a great amount of money, chief inspector
20:47Ask yourself, Poirot
20:51Man insures his life for a hefty sum like this
20:55His health takes a sudden turn for the worse
20:57It becomes a burden on his poor young wife
21:01He might decide life's not worth living anymore
21:03He's more used to her dead than alive
21:05Suicide
21:07Insurance fraud
21:09It's certainly worth considering
21:15Well, the boys from the insurance company
21:17Have been doing their homework
21:19And it seems that our Mr. Maltraves'
21:21Business affairs have been going through
21:23Rather a sticky patch of late
21:25As things stood when he died
21:27He was on the verge of bankruptcy
21:29No, no, no, merci
21:33Now that would give him a pretty powerful motive
21:35To engineer his own death
21:37Pay off his debts
21:39And make sure Mrs. Maltraves was left well provided for
21:41Tell me, chief inspector Jabb
21:44How is Mr. Maltraves supposed to have taken his life
21:46When there are no signs of the violence
21:48No injuries of any kind on the outside
21:50And there is no poison
21:52That can fill the mouth of a man with the blood
21:54Presumably the post-mortem
21:56Will tell us if it was the answer
21:58Yes, that'll take a couple of days yet
22:00We've got to get a pathologist over from Norwich
22:02And of course, we mustn't forget Captain Black
22:04Now he left in a bit of a hurry
22:06I hope you've got your lads on the lookout for him, chief inspector
22:08Yes, we circulated a full description of all the major seaports
22:10Although, of course, it's not really the
22:13You seem to know a lot about all this, sir
22:15Crime and detection, chief inspector
22:17Are a special hobby of mine
22:19As Mr. Poirot here will tell you
22:21Now
22:23I've drawn up a little list
22:25Of the principal suspects
22:27Which I think you'll find very useful
22:29Thank you
22:31Monsieur Norton
22:33Perhaps you would oblige us
22:35With a little more of your most illustrious apple sauce
22:37Certainly
22:39Thank you
22:41Sir, what do you recommend?
22:43If it wasn't suicide
22:45And it wasn't natural causes
22:47Surely you don't believe all this hogwash
22:49About ghosts and haunted trees
22:51I believe, mon ami, that there is at work here
22:53Some great evil
22:55In what shape or form
22:57We shall soon discover
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24:52It was her blood
24:54I know it was her blood
24:56Tell me, madame
24:58When your husband went for his walk
25:00In the garden, you observed him from the window?
25:02I saw him go out
25:04Then he disappeared from my view
25:06Around the other side of the house
25:08I was working on a watercolour
25:10Of the south lawns
25:12And he used to go and sit in front of the old
25:14Yew hedge
25:16On the west side of the house
25:18And the secretary
25:21What did you say to your husband, mademoiselle Rawlings?
25:23She went to the bank
25:25At about 9.30
25:27And returned at 11
25:29I just finished my painting
25:31I think I was just washing the brushes
25:33Through when she came back in
25:35And asked to see Jack
25:37That's when Danvers came running across the lawn
25:39I'm sorry, Mr Poirot
25:41I'm sorry
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26:48Thank you
26:50Mr Poirot
26:52Monsieur le docteur
26:54I would like to introduce you if I may
26:56To my associate, Captain Hastings
26:58How do you do?
27:06For the children
27:08Help yourself
27:10Thank you
27:14Doctor Bernard
27:17In your expert opinion
27:19How dangerous was it
27:21The stomach condition of Monsieur Maltravers
27:23I'm afraid I'm not
27:25In the fortune-telling business, Mr Poirot
27:27Of course, we all knew
27:29There was a risk of complications
27:31There always is
27:33He's a very hardy type, Jonathan
27:35Very strong constitution
27:37Shouldn't have had any problems
27:39He really shouldn't
27:41What do I know
27:43Forty-five years
27:46A little experience
27:48Sometimes doesn't amount to a jot
27:50In the end
27:52Rot your teeth, you know
27:54Do you also prescribe the drugs
27:56For Madame Maltravers
27:58Oh yes, from time to time
28:00Sleeping pills, that sort of thing
28:02She frequently
28:06That's odd
28:08Something is wrong, Doctor Bernard
28:10Chloroform
28:12Five fluid ounce bottle
28:15Hello, Mast...
28:17Oh, Mr Poirot
28:19No, I'm afraid she isn't
28:21She went into town
28:23To the civil defence meeting
28:25At the parish hall
28:27About an hour ago
28:29Civil defence meeting
28:31Come Hastings
28:33The time may be of the essence
28:35Excuse me, Madame
28:37Excuse me, could you tell me please
28:39Where is the parish hall
28:41Merci
29:05Vite, mon ami
29:07Vite, mon ami
29:09Vite, mon ami
29:11Vite, mon ami
29:21...enabling the wearer to breathe in
29:23Without the fear of being hit
29:25With noxious gases
29:27In the event of a sudden emergency
29:29Make sure
29:31The mask is secured
29:33by fastening the strap of the back of his...
29:40Excuse me, madam.
29:43Madam Maltravers, are you here?
29:47Madam Maltravers!
29:52The guard passed me!
29:54Excuse me, clear the way, please.
30:00Excuse me, please.
30:04Excuse me.
30:08Some smelling salts or some brandy.
30:10And fetch at once a doctor.
30:15Captain Black.
30:20Quick, Hastings, he must not leave.
30:28A bit of a rush, aren't we, sir?
30:33He's all right, madam. He's all right.
31:04Sir.
31:13Hastings, I think it would be wise for you to travel back with Madam Maltravers
31:17until she is quite recovered from this ordeal.
31:19Oh, yes, of course.
31:21Madam, thank you.
31:23See you back at the hotel.
31:43Why did you try and run away back there, Captain Black?
31:46I wasn't running away.
31:48I was running downstairs to see if I could help.
31:51I didn't fill this blasted thing with poison.
31:54My God!
31:56I wouldn't harm so much as a hair up her head.
32:00I've done nothing wrong.
32:02Well, in that case, perhaps you'd like to tell us
32:04why you vanished like a ghost on the morning of Mr Maltravers's death,
32:08where you've been for the last 24 hours,
32:10and how you came to turn up again here today
32:13as an attempt being made on his poor young widow's life.
32:20Captain Black,
32:22if you will not answer the questions of the chief inspector,
32:25perhaps you will answer one of mine.
32:29How long have you been in love with Madam Maltravers?
32:33This is preposterous!
32:35Now, now, come, come, come, come, monsieur.
32:37The truth, if you please.
32:42How could I stay here?
32:45How could I stay when every second was agony for me?
32:49Seeing the two of them like that,
32:53I thought I'd managed to get over it.
32:55And when I saw her again, I knew it was no good.
32:59I was just so ashamed of my feelings.
33:05I got the train back to Tilbury next morning,
33:08planning to return to East Africa and put it all behind me.
33:13And when I read of his death in the newspaper,
33:15naturally I had to come back and...
33:18Yes, of course. The newspaper.
33:21Tell me, Captain Black,
33:23the night you arrived in the hotel,
33:25you had with you a parcel, is that not so?
33:27Wrapped in the newspaper.
33:29Yes, it was an African carving,
33:31a kind of talisman that I picked up while travelling in Kenya.
33:34Yes, and you said, as I now recall,
33:37it was a present for someone?
33:39For Susan, that's right.
33:41I'm afraid it might have unnerved her, rather.
33:45She's slightly superstitious about that kind of thing.
33:48Is this relevant, Poirot?
33:50Relevant, Chief Inspector? Yes.
33:52For we have now found the key
33:55to the death of Monsieur Jonathan Maltrovers.
34:01The colours really are delightful, I must say.
34:05You really have a special talent, Mrs Maltrovers.
34:11Look, are you sure you're all right now?
34:13It's been such a difficult journey.
34:15Look, are you sure you're all right now?
34:17It's been such a ghastly ordeal.
34:20Some rest and quiet, I think, is what she needs the most.
34:23She's in safe hands, aren't you, my dear?
34:33Captain Hastings!
34:36I'd like you to have this.
34:38For all your help today.
34:40I say, that's awfully kind of you. Are you sure?
34:43I can't stand another night of it.
34:46On my own, in the house, with her.
34:49Miss Rawlinson? I don't understand.
34:51There was something between them.
34:53Once upon a time, years before I met him.
34:57Of course, it was all over as far as Jack was concerned, but...
35:01I don't know.
35:03With all this, I just don't know any more.
35:06All of a sudden, she scares me.
35:10I see.
35:12Come back and have dinner with us tonight, please.
35:15You and Mr Poirot. I just feel safer.
35:29So, what's happened?
35:31They arrested Captain Black?
35:33The fog, it begins to clear, Hastings.
35:36But there are yet many questions that remain unanswered.
35:40So, I come here for the early lunch.
35:43The salad niçoise will prove most nourishing for the little grey cells.
35:46So, what have you found out?
35:48Was Maltravis murdered or not?
35:50Oh, yes, Hastings. He was murdered.
35:52Most cruelly, and in the cold blood.
35:54What about Mrs Maltravis?
35:56I wonder who put the chloroform in her gas mask.
36:00Yes.
36:02The mask.
36:05The mask.
36:09How is Madame Maltravis now?
36:11She's quite recovered from her ordeal?
36:13Yes, sort of.
36:15Actually, she's asked us both out there to dinner tonight, to the manor.
36:19She still seems to be worried about that secretary, Miss Hastings.
36:24Is this not the picture painted by Madame Maltravis on the morning of the tragedy?
36:27Yes.
36:29My worst suspicions are now confirmed.
36:31For God, Hastings, it is all here.
36:33This picture tells the whole story.
36:35You do not see?
36:37Sorry, Poirot. Just looks like a painting of the garden to me.
36:42And the eggs.
36:44Yes, the broken eggs.
36:47It must still be there.
36:49Ah, why did I not see before?
36:51Mr Poirot, Inspector Jap on the phone from the local police headquarters.
36:54Sounds as if the plot's thickening.
36:58Ah, Poirot.
37:00Thought you might be interested to hear the rather startling results of that post-mortem.
37:04According to this, what actually killed Jonathan Maltravis was...
37:10How the devil did you know that?
37:12We have not the moment to waste, Chief Inspector.
37:14Tell me, do you still have stationed at the manor house the constable outside in the garden?
37:19Bon.
37:21Then listen to me carefully.
37:23You must give to him the following instructions.
37:25You must give to him the following instructions.
37:37Incidentally, Monsieur Norton, the killer is the explorer who is bedridden.
37:42Really?
37:43Oh, may we?
37:44He fires into the fruitcake the poison dart from his window upstairs.
37:47Good Lord. I think you may have solved it for me.
37:51And you, my friend, can repay with a small service for me.
38:10Susan, I... I'm so sorry about...
38:13Susan, I... I'm so sorry about...
38:19I had to come back. Do you understand?
38:23That's very sweet of you, Captain.
38:44It seems to be blowing up a bit of a gale out there.
38:48The Ibian has teams of strong gales.
38:50They are to be expected at this time of year.
38:53Strong enough to waken the dead.
39:01Oh, God!
39:02Oh, God!
39:03Oh, God!
39:04Oh, God!
39:05Oh, God!
39:06Oh, God!
39:07Oh, God!
39:08Oh, God!
39:09Oh, God!
39:10Oh, God!
39:11Oh, God!
39:12Oh, God!
39:13I'm sorry!
39:14No, no, no, madame. Sit yourself, please.
39:16Please, be seated.
39:18It is nothing.
39:23Voila.
39:34Oh, my God.
39:35My God, what's happening?
39:37It is the wind, madame.
39:43Nothing more.
39:46No.
39:47No, those doors were locked.
39:49I locked them both before dinner.
39:51I distinctly remember...
39:53Ah!
39:55Be still, madame, my brother.
39:58Jack.
40:01Oh, my God.
40:03No.
40:04No, it can't be.
40:11Jack.
40:13Jack.
40:14Jack.
40:15Jack.
40:16Jack.
40:17Jack.
40:18Jack.
40:19Jack.
40:20Jack.
40:21Jack.
40:22Jack.
40:24Madame, your hand, it is bleeding.
40:29No.
40:32No, Mr. Poirot.
40:36Jack's blood.
40:39My husband's blood...
40:43...is on my hands.
40:47Because...
40:50...I...
40:53...killed him.
41:06Lights.
41:07Chief Inspector.
41:12You have heard enough, Chief Inspector Jacques.
41:14I'm afraid it's all over, Mrs. Mountravis.
41:24You performed your part most splendidly.
41:31Monsieur Norton.
41:33I'll be able to tell my grandchildren...
41:35...I helped Mr. Hercule Poirot...
41:37...solve one of his most baffling cases.
41:40Merci, monsieur.
41:42Right, come on, Bunnings, let's get her out of here.
41:51Susan.
41:54You did this for me?
41:56For you.
42:14But I don't understand.
42:17This mask.
42:18A wax cast, mademoiselle.
42:21Taken from the face of the deceased.
42:26A device most macabre, eh?
42:28But I fear it was necessary for the success of this little masquerade.
42:32But...
42:33...the blood.
42:36A little red paint...
42:39...that I pressed into her hand a few seconds before.
42:43In fact, it was the same red paint that she herself used...
42:46...to produce the blood on the mirror in her bedroom.
42:51But...
42:56She...
42:58Oh, yes.
43:00Just as she invented the face in the cedar tree.
43:04Of course, there was no face.
43:07There was no laughter.
43:10The wind paints the pictures in her leaves...
43:14...and the screeching of the rope...
43:16...plays the tricks upon the ears.
43:19The seeds of fear, once they are sown...
43:22...begin to grow in the imagination.
43:28But why?
43:31Simple.
43:34To unsettle her husband.
43:37To drive him...
43:39...to his grave.
43:45Remember, mademoiselle...
43:46...that his condition...
43:47...it is still weak after the operation.
43:49Yes?
43:51She knows...
43:52...that any sudden upset or shock...
43:54...could be most disastrous to his health.
43:57Et la, voilà .
43:58The insurance, it is paid out...
43:59...and she has got rid of the husband she had married...
44:02...only for his money.
44:06Unfortunately, Mr. Maltrovis turned out to be rather stronger...
44:09...than she bargained for.
44:11Which was why she decided on more drastic measures.
44:14Ah, yes.
44:17The little Rook rifle.
44:24Jack?
44:25Mademoiselle Rawlinson, you are at the bank...
44:27...Monsieur Danvers at work in another part of the garden...
44:30...and so, she took her chance.
44:35The Rook rifle, with its tiny bullets...
44:38...was the murder weapon.
44:42Parfait.
44:47Parfait.
44:57The bullet, it is embedded in the brain...
45:01...and the effect, it is complete.
45:05The internal hemorrhage, that is fatal.
45:09For the moment, she conceives the weapon in the head...
45:11...and in so doing, she disturbs the nest...
45:13...and the eggs of the blackbird.
45:15Her plan to remove it later is foiled...
45:17...because there was, keeping watch in the garden...
45:19...a police constable.
45:22The body, she then drags to the foot of the tree...
45:26...to make us believe he had seen something up there...
45:29...which brought upon his attack, tragic.
45:36Ah, yes.
45:38With the arrival of Hercule Poirot, she starts to panic...
45:42...because she knows that I suspect the murder.
45:45And so she stages the clumsy affair...
45:47...with the chloroform in the gas mask...
45:50...to make us believe that her own life was under threat.
45:57All this to divert our suspicions...
46:01...of the most cruel...
46:04...the most brutal murder...
46:07...of her poor husband.
46:16No!
46:42Sweet-looking girl like that.
46:44Who'd have thought she could come up with such a grisly idea?
46:47Ah, but Chief Inspector, the idea did not come from her.
46:51It came from her admirer of the most ardent...
46:55...Captain Black.
46:56You don't mean they were both in on the whole thing?
46:58Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, Hastings.
47:01The newspaper.
47:03Someone just back from Africa?
47:04That was wrapped around the present of Captain Black.
47:09On the front page, there was a story about a farmer in East Africa...
47:12...who had killed himself in exactly the same manner...
47:17...with a rook rifle in the mouth.
47:22You did not observe the headline?
47:25Ah, but I'll tell you, Poirot, he sees everything...
47:28...and he forgets nothing.
47:31What about the picture?
47:32The shadows, Hastings.
47:34They were all cast from the right to the left.
47:36You do not see?
47:37Sorry, Poirot.
47:38Madame!
47:39I think you'd better come quick!
47:41Now, if she had truly painted that picture in the morning...
47:44...before midday, as she had claimed...
47:46...they would have all been cast from the left to the right.
47:50Ah, so she'd already painted that picture beforehand...
47:53...to give herself an alibi.
47:54C'est ça.
47:55Well, I suppose we'd better be leaving.
47:57Catch our train.
47:58Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Chief Inspector.
48:00It is still early...
48:01...and the exhibits here are quite remarkable, n'est-ce pas?
48:04To be immortalized in such a fashion unique.
48:07Ah, quel honneur!
48:08Oh, I wonder what he's around here.
48:15Oh, very impressive.
48:17Quite incredible.
48:18It's a masterpiece.
48:20A true work of art.
48:23That's his curly hair to a T.
48:25He's even got the little dimples on his cheeks, look.
48:28A real piece of craftsmanship, wouldn't you say?
48:38Oh, yes.