Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin.
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Ian Weichardt as Young Lomax
Laura O'Toole as Agnes
Robert Dunbar as Young Count
Edward Fox as Caterham
Mathew Horne as Eversleigh
Adam Godley as Lomax
Charlotte Salt as Virginia
Jonas Armstrong as Cade
Michelle Collins as Treadwell
Anthony Higgins as Count Ludwig von Stainach
Dervla Kirwan as Bundle
Ruth Jones as Blenkinsopp
Alex Knight as Jaffers
Stephen Dillane as Inspector Finch
Letty Butler as Young Treadwell
Nicci Brighten as Madeleine
Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple
Ian Weichardt as Young Lomax
Laura O'Toole as Agnes
Robert Dunbar as Young Count
Edward Fox as Caterham
Mathew Horne as Eversleigh
Adam Godley as Lomax
Charlotte Salt as Virginia
Jonas Armstrong as Cade
Michelle Collins as Treadwell
Anthony Higgins as Count Ludwig von Stainach
Dervla Kirwan as Bundle
Ruth Jones as Blenkinsopp
Alex Knight as Jaffers
Stephen Dillane as Inspector Finch
Letty Butler as Young Treadwell
Nicci Brighten as Madeleine
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00:00:53No, no, no, no, no, no, Rita, please, please.
00:00:56No, no, no, no.
00:00:57No, no, you mustn't go in there, please.
00:00:59Please, you're not listening to what I'm saying.
00:01:03Please listen to me.
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00:01:15Cato, my dear chap, I wouldn't ask,
00:01:18only it's a matter of considerable national importance.
00:01:22Oh, isn't it always?
00:01:24We've had the most tremendous approach from Vienna.
00:01:26Oh, go on.
00:01:27Now that the Austrians are a nice neutral bunch,
00:01:29they're very keen to be friends with us Brits.
00:01:31Well, what's the offer?
00:01:33I am all.
00:01:35help them put their heavy industry back on its feet,
00:01:37take home all the iron ore we need.
00:01:39The PM can scarcely believe his luck.
00:01:41Anyway, Vienna's sending over an envoy, Count Ludwig.
00:01:45I've been tasked with sitting the Count down,
00:01:47putting pen to paper and getting him to sign the contract.
00:01:51Somewhere green and pleasant and above all discreet.
00:01:54Had you thought of chimneys?
00:01:56Well, you know, weekend house party, good food, decent cellar.
00:02:01Just like the old days, eh, what do you say?
00:02:03Do the eyes have it?
00:02:04Well, actually, I was thinking of going on holiday next month.
00:02:07Oh, nonsense, nobody goes on holiday in September.
00:02:10Besides, we're practically family, you and I,
00:02:13once we bring that girl of yours to her senses.
00:02:19We're not as we were, the house is in some disrepair.
00:02:22Oh, perfect. Faded grandeur.
00:02:24Adds to the flavour.
00:02:26It'll need to be low-key.
00:02:28Indeed so.
00:02:30Intuit, discreet, one or two guests, sensitively chosen.
00:02:35Of course, these Continentals are such fearful snobs.
00:02:38I'll send my best chap round to help with the setting up.
00:02:41Bill Eversley, yours to serve.
00:02:44How do you do?
00:02:47But why chimneys?
00:02:49It's years since we gave a party.
00:02:51Decades, not since 32.
00:02:54Show him the letter.
00:02:56The from Count Clutley.
00:03:05Here we are.
00:03:07Fourth para, halfway down.
00:03:11I have heard that chimneys is the most prized house in Old England
00:03:16and would count it a singular honour
00:03:19to see that jewelled palace for myself.
00:03:23It is a memory I am most eager to cherish.
00:03:44No need to drop in unannounced.
00:03:46If you're gentle with me, then I'll be gentle with you.
00:03:53Ah!
00:04:13Never, ever...
00:04:17touch Mother's bicycle again.
00:04:20Are you all right? Can you stand?
00:04:23Oh, yes, I...
00:04:24Well, that's the main thing.
00:04:25Once you're up on your pins, then life seems so...
00:04:30full of possibility.
00:04:33Indeed.
00:04:37Not that I was purely concerned about poor Mother's bicycle, you understand.
00:04:42Well, I should hope not.
00:04:44Well, I think the chap got the message, don't you?
00:04:49Ah!
00:04:52And there he was, galloping into Savion, his iron horse.
00:04:55I mean, he really was the most idiotically chivalrous...
00:04:58What?
00:05:00Virginia, you are as absurdly romantic as your dear mother.
00:05:04Oh, no, no, no, no. Woof, woof, wrong train.
00:05:07If you honestly... I mean, you couldn't be more unsuitable.
00:05:10No cash, no prospects.
00:05:12Oh, well, then.
00:05:13Yes, quite. Case closed.
00:05:16And anyway, he's been quite standoffish with me this past week.
00:05:20I expect he's bored of me. Don't you?
00:05:22Oh, yes. Does he have a name?
00:05:25Sir Anthony Kane.
00:05:27Oh, only without the knighthood.
00:05:39Oh, dear. I was just thinking.
00:05:42Your poor MP.
00:05:44Oh, God.
00:05:46George Lomax helped me the least bit put off.
00:05:48On the contrary.
00:05:50Not another ultimatum.
00:05:52I have until Sunday night to consent to be Mrs George Lomax.
00:05:55Or what?
00:05:56He invades Poland, I suppose.
00:05:58Anyway, the terms are most generous.
00:06:01He'll put Daddy up in a mansion flat in town,
00:06:03which is all he wants since Omar passed away.
00:06:06And he'll even pay to stop the chimneys from falling apart,
00:06:09which I suppose is jolly good for the family.
00:06:11If you marry him.
00:06:14I should be more grateful, obviously.
00:06:17Well, I'm not sure gratitude is the basis for a happy marriage.
00:06:22Well, no, no.
00:06:24Not that I'm any sort of expert.
00:06:26No, no, no, no.
00:06:27Mummy always said you were the most eminently sensible of all her cousins.
00:06:30Oh.
00:06:31Well, she's certainly made a splendid marriage.
00:06:35Oh, it should be so simple, shouldn't it?
00:06:37Being happy.
00:06:38I mean, one ought to see it and just know.
00:06:42Well, now that I've got you here, we are going to have a riot, you and I.
00:06:47My last weekend as an eligible spinster.
00:06:50Are you game?
00:06:51I'll do my best.
00:06:59Are you quite sure it's all right with your father having me along?
00:07:03Daddy's thrilled.
00:07:05And anyway, you have me down to St Mary Meads.
00:07:07It's only fair I return the favour.
00:07:10Here, look. Page 17.
00:07:12Isn't he a dish?
00:07:14Oh.
00:07:18Antony Cade.
00:07:20Some passing grim.
00:07:23Virginia's innocent, easily led, all part of her charm.
00:07:27Perhaps she's after a bit of fun, sir.
00:07:29Oh, Eversleigh, my short-trousered chum.
00:07:32We must all learn to put away childish things.
00:07:36I say, she's not bringing Cade along, is she?
00:07:38No, sir. She's coming with a Miss Marple.
00:07:40Do we know her?
00:07:41Not that I'm aware of.
00:07:42I thought you were across the guest list.
00:07:45Oh, I am. Absolutely.
00:07:47Marple. Some fresh-hatched little debutante.
00:07:52Something for you, Eversleigh.
00:07:56Regarding Virginia,
00:07:58I trust you harbour no ambitions of your own?
00:08:02What's the question?
00:08:03Because that wouldn't do at all, Eversleigh.
00:08:07One wouldn't want you to be hurt.
00:08:09No chance of that, sir.
00:08:18Yes, Treadwell?
00:08:19Your guest has arrived, sir.
00:08:21Already?
00:08:22Shoulders back, cometh the hour.
00:08:25Watch and learn.
00:08:27Letters for posting on his lordship's table.
00:08:30Send them express, if you be so kind.
00:08:33Count Ludwig!
00:08:41Oh, look.
00:08:42He's practically licking his shoes.
00:08:44The Count might think it's some sort of quaint British custom.
00:08:53Es ist eine Ehre,
00:08:55Sie in meiner bescheidenen Nation willkommen zu heißen.
00:09:00A little earlier, but so much the better.
00:09:08Indeed, a lovely house, yes.
00:09:11He seems like he's from another age.
00:09:13I wonder if he speaks any English.
00:09:15Well, how much English do you need to sign a cheque?
00:09:18Me metal, you baby dollars!
00:09:21Baby dollars!
00:09:28Madeleine?
00:09:32Ten press-ups, Papa. It's Virginia.
00:09:35Virginia.
00:09:37Deigning to pay his visit?
00:09:39Yes. I didn't hear you come in.
00:09:41Hello, Daddy.
00:09:43So sorry, darling.
00:09:45Ah, dear Jane.
00:09:49It's been, well...
00:09:51Yes, not since the funeral.
00:09:53You've been so kind to my daughter since we lost Madeline.
00:09:57How's your garden?
00:09:59Hardly thriving, I'm afraid.
00:10:01Daddy, you might have made a bit of an effort.
00:10:04Oh, pay no attention to me.
00:10:06I'm just the odd job man these days.
00:10:08Oh, look.
00:10:09I see you've invited that nice lady from National Heritage.
00:10:13Hilde Blenkinsop?
00:10:15No.
00:10:17No.
00:10:18No!
00:10:20Don't get cross. She was very keen to be invited.
00:10:23Well, she's banned, we agreed.
00:10:25Yes, but the National Heritage have made a very sensible offer.
00:10:29Chimneys has been in the family for centuries. It is family.
00:10:32Yes, but, darling, you know we can't afford to keep the place on.
00:10:36We will manage. We always do.
00:10:41Well, she's on good form.
00:10:45National Heritage has taken on 13 homes and gardens in the county.
00:10:51A baker's dozen.
00:10:53Built for the few, fit for the many.
00:10:56That's the England I fought for.
00:10:59And which front were you on, Miss Blenkinsop?
00:11:02Still, you'd be amazed how these old places fill up.
00:11:07Homes of the former great draw such a crowd, especially at weekends.
00:11:12Once we get that patch sorted out...
00:11:15That patch? These gardens were designed by Capability Brown.
00:11:19Oh, well, dear, I suppose we all have our off days.
00:11:23High society, Eversleigh. What did I say?
00:11:25Embellish the scene, sir.
00:11:27Embellish the scene? Scientists, captains of industry.
00:11:30What do you bring me, Mrs Mop and Mrs Bucket?
00:11:33Caterham says they're both first class, if you get a bit of gin down them.
00:11:37Oh, does he?
00:11:38Problem?
00:11:39Not at all, sir.
00:11:41Very diverse guest list.
00:11:44Good. I should join in.
00:11:50Is this your doing?
00:11:53George will have to take us as he finds us.
00:11:58What?
00:11:59Marry me.
00:12:02Bill.
00:12:05Never propose on an empty stomach.
00:12:07Ask you again after supper.
00:12:09Don't you have to be somewhere?
00:12:24Sultry, isn't it?
00:12:27What have you done to your hair?
00:12:29Not a thing.
00:12:31Sweet of you to notice, darling.
00:12:34You haven't forgotten that you promised me an answer by Sunday night.
00:12:38The clock is ticking.
00:12:48Forgive me, but you all look so perfect.
00:12:52Like you had stepped out of a photograph.
00:12:55Count Ludwig, allow me to introduce Clement Revel and 9th Marcus of Caterham.
00:13:00How do you do?
00:13:02The honour is entirely mine.
00:13:07And these are your two little revels.
00:13:11Would you indulge your fading guests for me?
00:13:14Why not?
00:13:15I have two left feet, so why don't you try her?
00:13:19Because everyone else seems to...
00:13:22Oh.
00:13:31Oh, what a sense of rhythm.
00:13:34Such a graceful dance.
00:13:36Well, they all are, aren't they?
00:13:38Still, hardly the most practical accomplishment.
00:13:42Is this your first visit to our shores?
00:13:44No, I am an inveterate itinerant, I'm afraid.
00:13:48Oh, I was once upon a time.
00:13:52Gemein, now you are laughing at me.
00:13:54No, no, no, no, it's just your English.
00:13:56Splendid.
00:13:57I had a highly disciplined teacher, you see.
00:13:59She taught me only tongue twisters.
00:14:03Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:05Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:07Inveterate itinerant.
00:14:09Enough, I think that's enough.
00:14:11Your dinner is getting cold.
00:14:13Ah, there they go.
00:14:18Barngood, now will you lead on?
00:14:21Yes, of course.
00:14:22Miss Blankenshot, after you.
00:14:24Follow me, ladies.
00:14:35Very good, your withers.
00:14:41Shall we?
00:14:43Yes.
00:14:45Shall we?
00:15:07A splendid dinner, thank you.
00:15:09Yes, very filling.
00:15:10Forgive my asking, sir, your interest in my house.
00:15:13Is it for architecture?
00:15:14No, no, no, I have no head for grand design for architecture.
00:15:19Your paintings.
00:15:21Sold most of the decent ones.
00:15:23We still have our van Dyck's.
00:15:25So I see.
00:15:26And who is this fellow?
00:15:28Some old duke.
00:15:30Richmond, Duke of.
00:15:32Richmond.
00:15:34So, if it's not the art, or the art,
00:15:38If it's not the art, or the architecture, then...
00:15:42Oh, history.
00:15:44Great men rumoured to have met within these walls.
00:15:47Treaties, affairs of state, wars even.
00:15:51The garland ended here over coffee and cigars.
00:15:54Oh, nothing so biblical, I assure you.
00:15:57Oh, he's being modest, aren't you, Caterham?
00:16:00Chimneys had quite a reputation.
00:16:03So what happened?
00:16:05What was that?
00:16:07We ran into some bother.
00:16:10The party of 1932.
00:16:13Oh, that old yard.
00:16:15Well, we come back from an embassy posting.
00:16:18Caracas.
00:16:19It was my last one as it turned out.
00:16:21It was before Virginia was born.
00:16:23Anyway, it was quite a night.
00:16:25Your mother always gave wonderful parties.
00:16:27We had a band out in the garden.
00:16:29Oh, I remember the story, yes.
00:16:31You were there yourself, weren't you, George?
00:16:33Helping out.
00:16:34I was accompanying Lady Somerset.
00:16:37It was most instructive.
00:16:41Is this it?
00:16:43Yes.
00:16:44Where is that?
00:16:46The rose garden.
00:16:48Our lovely Viennese waltz.
00:16:52Charming singing voice.
00:16:54Anyway, there was a bit of a to-do
00:16:56because the Duchess of Somerset
00:16:58had borrowed a large brooch for the evening on her...
00:17:01Large brooch, Daddy?
00:17:03It was the Mysore diamond from India.
00:17:05Possibly the most revered diamond in the world.
00:17:09Well, whatever it was, by breakfast time it had disappeared.
00:17:13Stolen by some good-for-nothing parlour maid named Agnes.
00:17:18Parlour maid?
00:17:20What an English saga.
00:17:22The maid vanished overnight.
00:17:24Isn't that right?
00:17:25And the diamond was never, ever to be found again.
00:17:28Anyone for more coffee?
00:17:30Oh, yes, please.
00:17:32So, what sort of girl was she, this...
00:17:35Agnes?
00:17:37Or did nobody notice?
00:17:39Well, only 19 years old.
00:17:41She must have lost her head, I suppose.
00:17:44Anyway, it meant the end of my career in the diplomatic service.
00:17:51Or rather shameful.
00:17:55Well, if the lady is conspiracious, to business.
00:17:59Indeed, yes.
00:18:01I give you business.
00:18:03You want our iron, Mr Lomax MP?
00:18:08Well, naturally.
00:18:10I make one request.
00:18:12Chimneys.
00:18:16Give me chimneys as a personal favour,
00:18:19and in return I guarantee
00:18:21you can take home all the riches your heart desires.
00:18:25Well, I'm not sure...
00:18:27Were your nods for sale?
00:18:29Nods for sale?
00:18:31Tell them.
00:18:33Why don't you all try a hand at bridge?
00:18:36Oh, of course.
00:18:37Yes.
00:18:38Yes.
00:19:08It was a great pleasure.
00:19:27Mr Lomax! Sir!
00:19:29Jane! What happened?
00:19:31How do you know?
00:19:32What time is it?
00:19:34If you'd all like to gather downstairs.
00:19:39I'm sorry to have to wake you all up,
00:19:41but one of Mr Lomax's security staff was found unconscious.
00:19:45Is that so?
00:19:46That's right, sir. Roberts.
00:19:48All present and correct, Eversleigh?
00:19:50Indeed so.
00:19:51I believe we're one short.
00:19:53The Count?
00:19:54Out for the Count.
00:19:55That's no surprise, considering how he was knocking it back.
00:19:58Eversleigh, see if you can raise him.
00:20:00He's not in his room, sir.
00:20:01What? Where is he?
00:20:03Perhaps we need a search party.
00:20:05Indeed.
00:20:06Jaffers, you and Roberts seal off the back door.
00:20:08Bundle the old servants' quarters.
00:20:10Eversleigh, you and Miss Blankensop the ground floor,
00:20:12and Virginia and I will look upstairs.
00:20:14Why can't Virginia come with me?
00:20:16We don't have time for this now.
00:20:17Why are you always undermining her?
00:20:19Will you two kindly desist?
00:20:23Now, Virginia, can you run upstairs, please,
00:20:25and collect A.G.P.'s medicine?
00:20:27Jane will remain here and keep an eye on him.
00:20:29Of course.
00:20:30The rest of us can just as well look by ourselves, agreed?
00:20:37Count?
00:20:38Count Ludvig?
00:20:39Ludvig?
00:20:40Count Ludvig?
00:20:44Oh, I wonder, do you think that's wise?
00:20:47Probably not.
00:20:49What about you?
00:20:51Why not?
00:20:59Seems ages since we talked, you and I.
00:21:03I think Madeleine rather lost touch with you over the years.
00:21:06One grows apart, I think.
00:21:08I suppose.
00:21:10Still, I'm so grateful that you keep an eye on Virginia for me.
00:21:14A father can only do so much.
00:21:19And this past year, since Madeleine,
00:21:22well, it's not been easy.
00:21:26I gather you're hoping to move to London.
00:21:29Not if I can help it.
00:21:32Not if Bundle can help it.
00:21:37Oh, poor child.
00:21:39It's the only real home she's ever known, you see.
00:21:42The truth is that memories are no consolation.
00:21:47Not even the good ones.
00:21:50I brought your medicine.
00:21:52Thank God for my darling girls.
00:21:56Daddy?
00:22:02George? Not now.
00:22:04That sounded almost like...
00:22:06Is that a gunshot?
00:22:08Someone close that door!
00:22:16Well, where is he? Any sign?
00:22:18Did you hear it?
00:22:20I think half the county heard it.
00:22:22Well, it can't have just vanished.
00:22:24Are there no doorways, no outbuildings?
00:22:26You don't think our...
00:22:28Our little door?
00:22:33No.
00:22:39Take that.
00:22:41Should be torches on the wall.
00:22:43Yes, help yourself.
00:22:45Come on, Jane.
00:22:48What is that?
00:22:50Love, looks like it.
00:23:03Anthony?
00:23:05I think he's been shot.
00:23:07Oh, my God.
00:23:09Oh, my God.
00:23:11Oh, my God.
00:23:13Oh, my God.
00:23:15I think he's been shot.
00:23:17Oh, my God.
00:23:19Run!
00:23:21Oh, my God.
00:23:23Oh, my God.
00:23:25Can you hear me? Is he breathing?
00:23:27Check his pulse.
00:23:29Can you hear me?
00:23:31Oh, God.
00:23:33It wasn't me.
00:23:35I can't find a pulse.
00:23:37I think he's dead.
00:23:39It wasn't me!
00:23:46Virginia!
00:23:48Virginia!
00:23:50Virginia!
00:23:52Virginia!
00:23:54He was such an enchanting man.
00:23:56Who's our guest?
00:24:00I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation.
00:24:05Virginia!
00:24:07I should go to him.
00:24:09Don't you dare.
00:24:11Jim, come back.
00:24:13Virginia!
00:24:15Anthony!
00:24:17My love.
00:24:18Anthony!
00:24:19You can't go in there, miss.
00:24:20May I at least speak to him?
00:24:21I'm sorry, miss.
00:24:22Oh, please.
00:24:24Please.
00:24:28Anthony.
00:24:29Anthony, what are you even doing here?
00:24:31Virginia.
00:24:33You must promise me something.
00:24:35Anything.
00:24:37Please.
00:24:38Promise me you'll forget me.
00:24:41Anthony.
00:24:43Are you crazy?
00:24:45Anthony.
00:24:54Finch.
00:24:56Thank God.
00:24:58Good to see you again.
00:24:59Inspector Finch.
00:25:01The guru of Scotland Yard.
00:25:03Finch?
00:25:05Looks quite like a cat, don't you think?
00:25:08I loathe cats.
00:25:15I gather he has devotees all over the Home Office.
00:25:18They regard him as some sort of mystic.
00:25:21A bit like Julian of Norwich, only with powers of arrest.
00:25:24What do we know of the victim?
00:25:26Born in Vienna, 1892.
00:25:28Wealthy parents.
00:25:30Travelled about a good deal in his youth.
00:25:32Something of a wandering spirit.
00:25:34Into politics soon after the war.
00:25:36I'll meet my chap to find you a place in the town.
00:25:38No need. I shall be staying at Chimney's.
00:25:40Murder rarely keeps office hours.
00:25:42Hello.
00:25:44Bit of fresh air.
00:25:48Politically, this could be a disaster.
00:25:51Indeed.
00:25:53So the lady's retired early.
00:25:56We had some business.
00:25:58Not relevant.
00:26:00He wanted to buy Chimney's.
00:26:02He wanted to buy Chimney's.
00:26:04Well, the proposal was that the government would purchase the house
00:26:08and then pass it on to Count Ludwig as a gift.
00:26:11A bribe?
00:26:13Don't be so sad.
00:26:15A personal bribe.
00:26:17In return for which he hands over a share of their heavy industry.
00:26:20Where do we stand on that?
00:26:22Morally?
00:26:24Well back, I'd have thought.
00:26:26Is there paperwork for this sale?
00:26:29Signed, sealed and in my room on the top drawer.
00:26:34All academic now, of course.
00:26:36Understood.
00:26:38As one door closes, another stands ajar, Lord Caterham.
00:26:43Indeed.
00:26:46So you gentlemen retired at...
00:26:48About a quarter to eleven.
00:26:50Until we were woken by the fire bell.
00:26:52Mr. Lennox! Sir!
00:26:54At what time?
00:26:56Twenty to midnight.
00:26:58You all met downstairs?
00:27:00No sign of the Count, so off we went, looking for him.
00:27:03All save Clement and myself.
00:27:06Next thing, boom!
00:27:09The gunshot?
00:27:10He was in the passageway all along.
00:27:12Just a few yards away.
00:27:14Any fingerprints on the weapon?
00:27:17Regrettably not.
00:27:19Still, we have the culprit, Anthony Cade.
00:27:23He has one or two questions to answer, certainly.
00:27:26May I see the body?
00:27:27I shall take you there at once.
00:27:28Thank you. Or perhaps Miss...
00:27:31Marple?
00:27:32Marple, yes, if it's no inconvenience.
00:27:34Oh.
00:27:36Well, not at all.
00:27:48What was he doing here?
00:27:50Almost an hour after he went to bed.
00:27:54Well, he showed an interest over dinner in the Van Dyck portrait.
00:27:59I suppose the Count could have returned.
00:28:02Private viewing?
00:28:04I suppose.
00:28:05And chanced upon the secret door?
00:28:08Except that nothing quite happens by chance, does it?
00:28:12Not really.
00:28:14Or is that my tidy-minded preference?
00:28:24I see you don't have a man with you.
00:28:30I'm sorry?
00:28:32Well, inspectors nowadays tend to have a man with them.
00:28:36Ah.
00:28:38Well, perhaps you prefer to muse alone.
00:28:41Perhaps no man would have me.
00:28:43Oh.
00:28:45His blood.
00:28:47He was shot here.
00:28:50And crawled, staggered,
00:28:52or was dragged this-a-way,
00:28:55where he was found in the arms of Mr Cade, here.
00:29:00Before falling on Port Virginia, here.
00:29:05All fairly straightforward, apparently.
00:29:15Aha.
00:29:18Aha.
00:29:26Is it a letter?
00:29:29Not quite.
00:29:34A treble clef.
00:29:36A virtuoso.
00:29:38Perhaps you could take this and study it for me, Miss Marple.
00:29:42Very well.
00:29:48The Count said something before he died.
00:29:51Want. Want.
00:29:53Want? Are you sure?
00:29:55Mm-hm. Meaning?
00:29:57Well, I suppose we all want something.
00:30:00Even at death's door.
00:30:02A kiss of life, perhaps.
00:30:04How did you get here?
00:30:06Well, I climbed over the wall.
00:30:08I was eager to get up to the house, and this gentleman was blocking the path.
00:30:12Would you mind, sir?
00:30:14Would you mind, sir?
00:30:21Well, as I remember...
00:30:25I came from around here.
00:30:30Then I spotted the gentleman.
00:30:32I panicked, and then...
00:30:34You hit him.
00:30:38Yes. I am sorry about that.
00:30:41Using this?
00:30:43Exactly.
00:30:47What time was that?
00:30:4911.33, precisely.
00:30:51I remember because I looked at my wristwatch.
00:30:53I envy your eyesight, Mr Cade.
00:30:55You see, that's the thing.
00:30:57I know because there was a light on in one of the upstairs rooms.
00:31:04It was first story and then second to the right.
00:31:07Now, I can remember because... because someone had lit a fire.
00:31:11It was rather a warm night for a fire.
00:31:13Well, there was definitely smoke coming out of the chimney above.
00:31:19Anyway, at this stage, common sense sounded the retreat.
00:31:21Did you hear the warning?
00:31:23Well, sadly, common sense and I are no longer on speaking terms,
00:31:25so I carried on along here and through the door.
00:31:33And then I came down here.
00:31:37Opened the trap door.
00:31:40And then I heard the gunshot.
00:31:46Good God!
00:31:47He'd been shot already.
00:31:49Yes.
00:31:50Any idea who shot him?
00:31:52Afraid not.
00:31:53And yet the revolver three feet from where you're standing, a victim at your heel.
00:31:57I swear, I never saw any revolver.
00:31:59Mr Cade, may one ask what you were actually doing here?
00:32:04Yes, well, I did wonder when you get around to asking that.
00:32:08The truth is, I couldn't let Lomax have his way without putting up a fight.
00:32:11His way with Virginia, huh?
00:32:13Yes. I thought to myself,
00:32:15just sit tight and then burst in at breakfast and give you all a fright.
00:32:18You shall not do that.
00:32:20The constable found this in your pocket.
00:32:23Oh.
00:32:24Any idea who wrote it?
00:32:28Dear Cade, come to Chimneys. There's a trap door in the garden.
00:32:3111.45 sharp.
00:32:34What?
00:32:35I didn't write this.
00:32:37I'm sure Mr Cade seems to think...
00:32:39Not my style.
00:32:40A love note is not something you just dash off.
00:32:44I see what you're sniggering at.
00:32:46I'm sorry, idiot. May I see?
00:32:52Hand it over.
00:32:55It appears from the postmark to have been sent locally.
00:32:58Express service as late as yesterday morning.
00:33:03So none of you sent this letter?
00:33:05How's this for a hypothesis?
00:33:07Cade types the letter himself,
00:33:09takes the train down to the village and posts it.
00:33:12All in a cynical bid to ensnare Virginia.
00:33:15Rubbish. I was having tea with him yesterday morning
00:33:18at the Lion's Corner house on the Edgware Road.
00:33:21And it was very nice.
00:33:26Mr Lomax, your room is second from the end, isn't it?
00:33:29So?
00:33:30There was a light on there last night just before the alarm sounded.
00:33:35Rubbish.
00:33:36Says who?
00:33:38Oh, Cade.
00:33:40Blatant attempt to put you off your game, Inspector.
00:33:43Anthony!
00:34:00I told you.
00:34:02I'm not worth a sacrifice.
00:34:05I'm in the dirt of that, thank you very much.
00:34:08If you would be so good as to remain at Chimney's until further notice.
00:34:12What about him? You're not going to let him wander about?
00:34:14We'll keep an eye on him.
00:34:16Keep an eye on all of you.
00:34:29He's quite perverse, isn't he?
00:34:33He was such a musical fellow.
00:34:36Quite a dancer.
00:34:38You know, I always say the point of a tune is to boost the morale, surely.
00:34:41Indeed.
00:34:43May I help?
00:34:44Oh, Treadwell, the very man.
00:34:46Where's that musical handbook of Virginia's? You know the one?
00:34:48Hits of the Blitz?
00:34:50The very Nelly. Come.
00:34:55Oh, the cabinet.
00:34:58No, wait a minute.
00:35:01Oh.
00:35:03Hard at it, Miss Marple.
00:35:05Inspector, it's... I'm a little lost.
00:35:08One can hardly see where one bar ends and the next begins.
00:35:19I'm sorry, forgive me. It's hardly music at all.
00:35:22Could it be...
00:35:24Oh, forgive me.
00:35:26Go on.
00:35:27Oh, well, I... I wonder...
00:35:30Is it possible it is, in fact, a message of some sort?
00:35:34In code?
00:35:43What were you thinking of?
00:35:45We knew nothing about the man or his people.
00:35:47I know he's funny and reckless,
00:35:49and his mother has a jolly nice bicycle.
00:35:52Which, I happen to think, counts more than a dozen columns.
00:35:55Who's who?
00:35:57He ran a bar. Oh, how philanthropic.
00:35:59In Africa. In Bulawayo.
00:36:01He had a friend with him. They were business partners.
00:36:04And does this friend have a name?
00:36:06Jimmy McGrath. They did rather well.
00:36:09For a time.
00:36:11But Jimmy liked to drink, you see.
00:36:13He gambled it all away.
00:36:15Lost it all in one sitting to a gentleman from Pretoria.
00:36:17You've known him for less than a fortnight.
00:36:20Daddy.
00:36:21Ah, Caterham. Knocked some sense into your daughter.
00:36:24Oh, well, it's a brave man who dared to.
00:36:27What would your mother have said?
00:36:29My mother?
00:36:31You presume to speak about.
00:36:33Always went with her heart.
00:36:35Isn't that so?
00:36:36And she raised me to do the same.
00:36:41Virginia!
00:36:42Anthony is no murderer!
00:36:45The clock is ticking.
00:36:47Slimy, slithering little...
00:36:49Oh!
00:36:50George bloody Lomax was the last man on earth.
00:36:53I'm not meant to know his maid is sweet on me.
00:36:56He sleeps with a hairnet. Can you imagine?
00:36:58Don't tell me that.
00:37:00Always makes me like him a little bit.
00:37:03I love Valentina, man.
00:37:06Besides, I mean, everybody has your skeleton, don't they?
00:37:10Only mine tend to leap out of the closet
00:37:13and dance a jiggle over the bloody society pages.
00:37:17What?
00:37:18No, you're allowed to swap cards if you like.
00:37:20Well, I don't want to.
00:37:22Royal what is it?
00:37:24Flush.
00:37:27Don't let me win, just cheer me up.
00:37:29Sorry, can't help myself.
00:37:33Thank God for you, sweetie.
00:37:35You're like a port in a storm.
00:37:37Bit more than that, I hope.
00:37:39I mean, with George in Lord Kitchener mode, and as for your pal, Mr Cade...
00:37:42Don't.
00:37:43I'm sorry, darling, but it has to be said,
00:37:46there's no place for a wedding.
00:37:47Not funny.
00:37:48Well, he quite obviously was in that tunnel while we were all in the house.
00:37:53Or were we?
00:37:57Or were we?
00:37:59Come on.
00:38:05What's she doing?
00:38:07Trying to prove her lover innocent.
00:38:09How does she propose to do that?
00:38:12I have no idea.
00:38:14Like it or not, Mr Cade was still there in the tunnel with a smoking gun.
00:38:18Will you arrest him?
00:38:19I'm tempted.
00:38:21He's careless.
00:38:22All the lies he tells, the letter, the business with the light on in the house.
00:38:26A man like Cade requires plenty of rope.
00:38:29Like most of us.
00:38:30Even you.
00:38:32Am I under suspicion?
00:38:34I know your secret, Miss Markham.
00:38:36You are a puzzle archer of mysteries.
00:38:39I've muddled through one or two.
00:38:43Matter of association, really.
00:38:46My village, you see.
00:38:48St Mary Mead.
00:38:49Yes, yes.
00:38:51It's a most pleasant community.
00:38:54And yet, the whole of life seems to pass by my window.
00:38:59More than you would expect.
00:39:02You're doing it again, Inspector.
00:39:04What's that?
00:39:05What's that?
00:39:06Standing mute, so that one is forced to run on and on more than ever one would wish.
00:39:11I'm keeping you where I can see you, Miss Markham.
00:39:14You may have disgraced half the men in my profession, but you shan't disgrace me.
00:39:18I hope not, Inspector.
00:39:21I envy you, you know, the amateur sleuth.
00:39:23One has nothing to lose, somehow.
00:39:26Still, a salary is...
00:39:30convenient.
00:39:31Indeed.
00:39:32If it wasn't for the generosity of my nephew, Raymond...
00:39:35Raymond, I've read in a dozen case files.
00:39:38Yes.
00:39:41Hardly a distinguished name.
00:39:43Raymond?
00:39:45No, Jimneys.
00:39:47Until it stands before one, and then it all makes sense.
00:39:51Dozens of them.
00:39:53Splendid.
00:39:55That great tower standing proud, so that...
00:39:58Which was the window Mr Cade said was lit up on the night of the murder?
00:40:02Second from the right.
00:40:03The MP's room.
00:40:04Yes, and yet, as one approaches the spot where Mr Cade stood,
00:40:08a window is obscured.
00:40:10Do you see?
00:40:12On account of the tower.
00:40:13So that what appears to be second from the right is in fact...
00:40:17Third from the right.
00:40:19So, who was up and about moments before the gunshot?
00:40:23Miss Trenwell.
00:40:26Might I have a word, please?
00:40:32At 33 minutes past 11, your bedroom light was on 12 minutes before the gunshot.
00:40:36Yes.
00:40:37Briefly.
00:40:38Can you tell me why?
00:40:41I wish to speak to Count Ludwig.
00:40:44But noticing his bed was unoccupied, I returned to mine.
00:40:48I'm sorry.
00:40:49Ludwig.
00:40:51But noticing his bed was unoccupied, I returned to my room.
00:40:54Any particular reason for wishing to speak to him?
00:40:58Oh, he'd...
00:41:00Earlier in the evening, he'd asked for an extra blanket.
00:41:03So, perhaps your little fire.
00:41:06I beg your pardon?
00:41:07At the same time, 11.33.
00:41:11No fires last night, I...
00:41:13I would have known, you see.
00:41:16You know, it's funny, but yesterday, I...
00:41:19I really felt that you knew him.
00:41:25This looks a very grand affair.
00:41:27That's how they did it in those days.
00:41:29And this would be the orchestra, at the back here.
00:41:34What sort of music do they play?
00:41:36Horses, mainly.
00:41:38Viennese horses?
00:41:42It's him, isn't it?
00:41:43There, Count Ludwig.
00:41:45So he has been here before.
00:41:48And where else but in the orchestra?
00:41:53What brought you back after all these years?
00:42:01Any thoughts, Miss Treadwell?
00:42:05He got no more than he deserved.
00:42:07I'm sorry?
00:42:14The girl who...
00:42:15Who disappeared?
00:42:16Agnes.
00:42:17The parlour maid, yes?
00:42:19Whatever happened to Agnes?
00:42:22That night, after the party, I...
00:42:25I saw a light.
00:42:43I saw a light.
00:43:13This was the tomb I saw opened.
00:43:27Her body, it was down there.
00:43:40Look, let me help you.
00:43:42I'm going to tell you a story.
00:44:13Agnes.
00:44:16Her apron.
00:44:19Poor child.
00:44:21All this time, you said she was the thief.
00:44:37I think it's time you told us what happened.
00:44:39The mistress, she confided in me once.
00:44:42Madeleine?
00:44:43What did she tell you?
00:44:46She said Agnes was with him that night.
00:44:49With whom?
00:44:51A musician, a fiddle player.
00:44:54Oh, the Count.
00:44:56All these years.
00:44:58Not a word.
00:45:00I wanted to, sir.
00:45:03I thought if I spoke out, you would contact the police
00:45:06and there'd be more of a story.
00:45:08If I spoke out, you would contact the police
00:45:10and there'd be more of a scandal.
00:45:12It had already ruined your career
00:45:14and if a stolen jewel could cast such a shadow
00:45:17and then, and then the theft of a life.
00:45:21I'm so sorry.
00:45:23Oh, what have I done?
00:45:25I'm sorry.
00:45:29Well?
00:45:30She's certainly hiding something.
00:45:39Yeah.
00:45:52Damn.
00:46:00Oh.
00:46:03Wondered if there was any...
00:46:04What?
00:46:05Cardboard.
00:46:06Wondered if there was any.
00:46:08Sorry, what are you...
00:46:09What do you want cardboard for?
00:46:10I'm making something.
00:46:12Yes, well, I can't see any, so if you wouldn't mind.
00:46:15What are you up to, Miss Blenkinsop?
00:46:17Just looking for some privacy in this big old nasty...
00:46:21house.
00:46:22Hands off.
00:46:24Sorry.
00:46:25I'll leave you to it.
00:46:37Oh.
00:46:38Oh, it's child's play.
00:46:41It's musical mathematics.
00:46:43Don't you see?
00:46:44One simply transposes the music from notes into letters.
00:46:47So, two octaves.
00:46:50Take us from A up to O,
00:46:52while these eleven sharps
00:46:54bring us all the way up to Z.
00:46:56Your coded letter.
00:46:57Oh.
00:46:58Oh.
00:46:59Oh.
00:47:01Oh.
00:47:02Oh.
00:47:03Oh.
00:47:04Oh.
00:47:06Please, I cannot abide flattery.
00:47:08Thank you, Lady Revel.
00:47:12Very well.
00:47:13Thank you, Puddle.
00:47:16For this reason...
00:47:17My beloved captain,
00:47:19I can never see you again.
00:47:21Promise me you will return one day
00:47:23for the greatest jewel,
00:47:25Richmond 20 North 3 East.
00:47:28A love letter in a dead man's pocket.
00:47:30Incomplete.
00:47:31If we had a couple more pages, a date would be helpful.
00:47:33Yes.
00:47:34The manuscript was written in ballpoint pen.
00:47:36Indeed.
00:47:37It's the last couple of years.
00:47:38Yes.
00:47:39Oh.
00:47:40Farewell,
00:47:42beloved captain.
00:47:44An alias for Count Ludwig,
00:47:47if this affair was to be kept quiet.
00:47:49The count had a secret lover,
00:47:51Agnes.
00:47:52Perhaps.
00:47:54What do we make of this?
00:47:55Promise me you will return one day
00:47:58for the greatest jewel.
00:48:00Is it possible...
00:48:01Count Ludwig came here to Chimneys
00:48:03not to discuss iron,
00:48:04but on a secret mission revealed within this letter
00:48:06to recover the stolen Mysore diamond
00:48:08located somewhere in this house.
00:48:11No wonder it's in code.
00:48:13That's why he wanted to buy Chimneys,
00:48:16Richmond 20 North 3 East.
00:48:19The evidence was right before our eyes.
00:48:21Van Dyck.
00:48:22And the subject,
00:48:23the Duke of Richmond.
00:48:2618, 19, 20, 21, 22...
00:48:34So?
00:48:36Sir?
00:48:38Now, don't torment me, Inspector,
00:48:41if you're holding something back.
00:48:43Want. Want.
00:48:44His last words.
00:48:47Unless, of course...
00:48:52Unless, of course, it must be him.
00:48:54Not English, but his mother tongue.
00:48:56Not want, want, but wund, wund.
00:49:00Der Wand in high German,
00:49:02or wund in the Austrian dialect.
00:49:05Meaning?
00:49:06The wall. The wall.
00:49:08You think...
00:49:09You think the diamond is hidden somewhere in the wall?
00:49:18Well, bravo.
00:49:21Bravo.
00:49:22But, you know, I think I know a gentleman
00:49:24who might shed a little more light on the matter.
00:49:27You were accompanying your godmother, Lady...
00:49:30Lady Sunset.
00:49:31That's right. We, uh...
00:49:33We always called her Robbie.
00:49:37Must have been quite bewitching.
00:49:40What?
00:49:41The diamond.
00:49:43Oh, I see.
00:49:45Well, it's all just coloured glass to me, Inspector.
00:49:50Hmm.
00:49:51Uh, what have you got there?
00:49:54Notes from the investigation in 32.
00:49:57Interviews with, among others, yourself.
00:50:00I have no recollection of said diamond's disappearance.
00:50:04In fact, I was asleep.
00:50:06I've been charging about since dawn.
00:50:08Really, Inspector...
00:50:09I see Lady Somerset retired early as well.
00:50:12We had nothing to do with any theft, I assure you.
00:50:17The point is...
00:50:19See for yourself.
00:50:23I was a young rake.
00:50:26She was easily a bed.
00:50:30I see.
00:50:32Well, at least I have an inkling.
00:50:36And he was writing under a nom de plume.
00:50:39Count Ludwig had an alias.
00:50:41The Captain.
00:50:42Odd.
00:50:43And a secret lover to boot.
00:50:45It's all in the letter.
00:50:47Who was she, the lover?
00:50:49Well, we wondered, Agnes.
00:50:51Poor Agnes.
00:50:52Not only that, the Count seems to have had a hand in the theft of the famous diamond.
00:50:56So he bumped her off, did he?
00:50:58Two thieves fighting over the spoils.
00:51:01Well, do start away, everyone.
00:51:03Yes.
00:51:04And she wasn't the only one, was she?
00:51:06The only victim, I mean.
00:51:08Uh, Bill, where is the...
00:51:10Right here, my dearest.
00:51:16Chimneys.
00:51:18Not quite to scale, I'm afraid.
00:51:20Night of the murder.
00:51:22We all came downstairs, yes?
00:51:24And we couldn't find the Count.
00:51:26So off we all went.
00:51:28Separately.
00:51:29Now, this is the point.
00:51:30This is where we all were.
00:51:32So, Bundle, you were upstairs in the guest wing.
00:51:35George was there also.
00:51:37Treadwell, kitchen.
00:51:39Miss Blenkinsop, I believe, was on the terrace.
00:51:41Bill, study.
00:51:43And I was upstairs, then down to the council chamber.
00:51:46We were all gone, what, five minutes, Bill?
00:51:49Absolutely.
00:51:50One or two at most.
00:51:51Then, gunshot.
00:51:53Back we all flew, front door wide open.
00:51:55Someone close that door!
00:51:57Agreed?
00:51:58Now, who's to say one of us couldn't have run out of the house,
00:52:03through the garden, trap door, into the passage,
00:52:06shot the Count, and then one minute to get back after the gunshot,
00:52:09in time to make it look like,
00:52:11ah, to make it look like we'd been in the house all along.
00:52:16Front door to the trap door is, um, how many strides, Bill?
00:52:20We mentioned it.
00:52:21112, 112.
00:52:22Five minutes, there and back.
00:52:24It's possible.
00:52:25You said so yourself, didn't you, Bill?
00:52:27Sure.
00:52:28But why would anybody here want...
00:52:30Well, the Count wanted chimneys, didn't he?
00:52:32I mean, we all heard him say that.
00:52:34And Bundle, I mean, you were so mortally opposed to losing the house.
00:52:37I had no idea I was so pathetically grasping.
00:52:39Well, somebody killed him, didn't they?
00:52:41And as for that poor dead girl, I just...
00:52:43My little fox, now, what you need is, is, is...
00:52:46Enough!
00:52:48Quiet!
00:52:52Are you making notes, Blankensol?
00:52:55No.
00:52:56To think, what a pleasing oral history this will all make
00:52:59back in your municipal headquarters.
00:53:01Not at all.
00:53:02When everyone knows you've had your claws in chimneys for years.
00:53:05Grubbing about with your letters and your polite notices.
00:53:08Rifling through our drawers, tipping off our creditors.
00:53:11Mother was on her deathbed.
00:53:13Not that you lost a moment's sleep over that.
00:53:15God knows why.
00:53:17I'll tell you why.
00:53:18I caught her.
00:53:19In the study.
00:53:21Going through the old housekeeping records, weren't you?
00:53:241932?
00:53:26This is all about Agnes, isn't it?
00:53:28You knew her?
00:53:29Agnes Parker was a child.
00:53:31A child.
00:53:33A child.
00:53:35When she was handed over to people like you.
00:53:38Trusted to your care.
00:53:40And when, one morning, she wasn't there, it broke her family's heart
00:53:43and not one of you had the decency to ask why.
00:53:47I feel sick.
00:53:49Well, you might.
00:53:50No, I feel sick.
00:53:52Oh!
00:53:55Oh, Clement.
00:53:56Oh, it's a sticker.
00:53:58Where's your tonic?
00:53:59Your tonic?
00:54:00Excuse me.
00:54:01There's hardly any left.
00:54:02Just take a swig.
00:54:04Excuse me.
00:54:05Damn soup.
00:54:11I'm so sorry.
00:54:12I'm so terribly sorry.
00:54:14What kind of soup is this, Miss Treadwell?
00:54:17Mushroom and sage.
00:54:19But you were quite well.
00:54:21Oh, I have no appetite by nightfall.
00:54:24One of the hidden costs of old age.
00:54:29Miss Treadwell helped me here.
00:54:31I'm quite sure in your mind that the Count murdered poor Agnes.
00:54:37Look, if there's anything else, then please.
00:54:40It's been so many years.
00:54:58Let's not wait until the morning.
00:55:01Fuse wire.
00:55:03Now, what's that doing there?
00:55:06Oh, indeed.
00:55:08Dear me, what a business.
00:55:13Ah, yes.
00:55:15Foxglove leaves.
00:55:17Easily muddled with sage.
00:55:19Must have found their way into the soup.
00:55:21Foxglove, you see, contains...
00:55:23Digitalis, natural poison.
00:55:25I've been doors.
00:55:31That's right.
00:55:51Jane.
00:55:53Here to rebuke me.
00:55:56Castigate away.
00:55:59Oh, look.
00:56:01Now, your, um...
00:56:03Your sister's account of last night.
00:56:05Oh, please, don't mind Ginny.
00:56:07Her nurse has shot.
00:56:09I noticed that you were upstairs here in the guest wing
00:56:13during the search party.
00:56:15I wondered what became of them.
00:56:19Of the legal paperwork drawn up last night for the sale of chimneys,
00:56:23which you took from Mr Lomax's room.
00:56:29Oh, that.
00:56:33Well, I did it for Father's sake, in the main.
00:56:37Chimneys meant everything to him once.
00:56:40He used to have such halcyon days
00:56:43after his retirement as a family.
00:56:46Of course, with Mama gone...
00:56:52I understand he's upset, memories and so forth,
00:56:55but given time...
00:56:59Unlike the rest of my family, I've not much use for passion.
00:57:04I'm not sure it's such a great task.
00:57:07It does make for a quieter life.
00:57:11Now, these papers.
00:57:19Old maid's last refuge, is it?
00:57:23An overweening love of domestic animals.
00:57:29Not that they ever reciprocated.
00:57:33It was always Treadwell, every dog and pup we ever had.
00:57:39She used to give them the funniest names.
00:57:53No...
00:58:11There's really no need to stay, sir.
00:58:13No, I'm fine.
00:58:18She had a weak heart.
00:58:20Not that I knew.
00:58:22Oh, I wondered merely why the poison in the folks' club leaves
00:58:27should prove lethal for her, while the rest of us...
00:58:31Well, she was a terrible warrior.
00:58:43Shanghai, 27.
00:58:46She travelled about with us everywhere.
00:58:50And this one?
00:58:53Oh, well, do you know? I have no idea.
00:58:57Our friend the Captain.
00:58:59All of them.
00:59:00Looks like him.
00:59:01And not in musical code.
00:59:03Not this one.
00:59:05Who was he riding to?
00:59:08Constance.
00:59:11She was with us for so many years.
00:59:14One forgot she even had a Christian name.
00:59:18Constance Treadwell.
00:59:21I was so sure she was holding something from us.
00:59:25Constance was Count Ludwig's lover.
00:59:31My dearest Constance,
00:59:33nine days until the party at the Palazzo Ducale.
00:59:37It feels like a prison sentence.
00:59:40It has rained every day since Caracas.
00:59:42The Captain.
00:59:43I am mad, bedlamized with love.
00:59:46But the lamb is stamping her little hooves.
00:59:49I must sign off now.
00:59:51Be of coverage.
00:59:53Until Friday, when she is.
00:59:55A glorious reunion.
00:59:58I will take you in my arms.
01:00:00And we will make such light-fingered music.
01:00:05Treadwell?
01:00:07I suppose she had much to lose.
01:00:09Her position, her livelihood.
01:00:11And when love is driven underground,
01:00:13it quickens its ardor.
01:00:18Oh, we had a case with our organist
01:00:21and a young page-turner at St. Mary Mead.
01:00:24I see.
01:00:26Well, one mustn't talk scandal.
01:00:29Places and times.
01:00:32Venice, Caracas.
01:00:34He must have trailed her for two years at least.
01:00:37All the way to Chimneys.
01:00:39All the way to Chimneys.
01:00:40Back to the party.
01:00:45A treadwell?
01:00:46A diamond leaf?
01:00:47Well, perhaps it was the Captain who urged her to do it.
01:00:52What is the lamb in these letters?
01:00:54Oh, I think that...
01:00:55Oh, I'm so sorry.
01:00:57You first.
01:01:00Agnes.
01:01:01Old papist word for lamb.
01:01:03Agnes Day, Lamb of God.
01:01:06Altar boy.
01:01:07Misspent youth.
01:01:11So safe to conclude, Agnes Parker was the courier
01:01:13ferrying letters between Constance Treadwell and her Captain.
01:01:16And then on the night of the party in 32,
01:01:19the theft of the Mysore diamond.
01:01:21Agnes is murdered.
01:01:22Widely circumstantial, but the messenger
01:01:25murdered by Count Ludwig because she found out about the theft.
01:01:29She knew too much.
01:01:30The Count buries her in the crypt
01:01:32and of course everyone assumes that Agnes has stolen the diamond.
01:01:35And then, years later, the two lovers dead themselves.
01:01:40Or murdered.
01:01:41Wretched soup.
01:01:42Which begs the question?
01:01:44How can the same dish kill one of us
01:01:47while provoking mere unpleasantness in the rest?
01:01:50A set of foxgloves tossed into the soup by the killer
01:01:53to convince us that Miss Treadwell's death was an accident.
01:01:56But in fact she was poisoned by something else.
01:01:59But what?
01:02:00I have no idea.
01:02:01Pity.
01:02:03And who among us, I wonder,
01:02:05has been quickest to defend poor Agnes Parker?
01:02:08Yes.
01:02:09I was at school with her.
01:02:11They lived on our street.
01:02:15This whole business with Agnes, well...
01:02:20It's how they treat them, isn't it?
01:02:22You never believed Agnes stole the Mysore diamond in 32, did you?
01:02:26Of course not.
01:02:28But I didn't knock anyone off
01:02:30and I certainly don't know anything about any poison.
01:02:33Digi... digi...
01:02:35And yet here you are.
01:02:38On the terrace.
01:02:39Camp Ludwig!
01:02:41Quite alone, no witnesses.
01:02:43What do we think?
01:02:44Could it be that Miss Blenkinsop climbed into the passage,
01:02:47fired the gunshot,
01:02:49then back in the house?
01:02:54I don't think so.
01:02:56Not with my asthma.
01:02:58You saw something, didn't you?
01:03:04Yes.
01:03:05I realise now it must have been Cade I saw in the garden.
01:03:09It did seem odd behaviour for a security guard.
01:03:12I could have said something, cried for help.
01:03:15I could have stopped it.
01:03:17But I just stood there.
01:03:29You're absolutely right, Inspector.
01:03:33I fear Mr Cade is running out of rope.
01:03:39Mr Eversleigh!
01:03:41Here we are.
01:03:43Dear Cade, come to Chimneys.
01:03:46There's a trapdoor in the garden, 11.45 sharp.
01:03:49Peyton Falsehood.
01:03:51Yes, well, note the capital C,
01:03:55note the capital C,
01:03:57the letter has a little crack in it.
01:03:59Do you see?
01:04:01And again here, the same little crack.
01:04:04So?
01:04:06The note to Mr Cade appears to have been written on this very typewriter.
01:04:10Which you yourself were using on the very morning the letter was dispatched.
01:04:15Oh, I see.
01:04:17You wrote this, didn't you?
01:04:19Yes.
01:04:21Well, some of it anyway.
01:04:23But I don't remember anything about 11.45.
01:04:25But your purpose in writing the letter?
01:04:29To help Mr Cade gain access to Chimneys?
01:04:32How long have you been acquainted with Mr Cade?
01:04:35A couple of weeks.
01:04:37I lost rather heavily at cards.
01:04:39My pet vice, losing heavily at cards.
01:04:42I get so crashingly bored in the office.
01:04:46There's a little room run in Aldwych.
01:04:48Pontoon, poker for the diehards.
01:04:50How much did you lose?
01:04:5397 quid.
01:04:56Anyway, he walked Cade.
01:04:58Said he could cover the debt.
01:05:00Said we could help each other out.
01:05:02Go on.
01:05:07Virginia.
01:05:11I do wonder if you shouldn't dismiss George's office so lightly.
01:05:14Oh, Anthony, you're like a stuck record.
01:05:16You're too damn decent. That's your problem.
01:05:18Virginia, please.
01:05:21I have a sort of confession.
01:05:24I'm not a good man.
01:05:26Not really.
01:05:28Well?
01:05:30My partner, Jimmy McGraw.
01:05:32The fact of the matter is that...
01:05:34that they were going to shoot him if I didn't get them the diamond.
01:05:38What?
01:05:39Mr Cade!
01:05:42Listen to me.
01:05:44The number of times I've played it over and over again in my mind.
01:05:47I was so scared that I'd lose you, you see?
01:05:50And I wish it weren't like this.
01:05:52I wish we could go back to the beginning and start this dance again.
01:05:55Me on the bicycle and you so beautiful that it hurts to look at you.
01:06:01Please, whatever you're about to hear,
01:06:03please, please believe me that I do love you.
01:06:18So this gentleman from Pretoria who's holding your friend...
01:06:22he has a passion.
01:06:25Diamonds?
01:06:27Yes.
01:06:29The Mysore diamond?
01:06:34He gave me six weeks to bring him the real McCoy...
01:06:37or Jimmy's life would be forfeit.
01:06:39So you staged the street assault to endear yourself to Virginia?
01:06:44Yes.
01:06:45Posing as the good Samaritan...
01:06:47to creep into the affections of an innocent young...
01:06:49George!
01:06:50Please, I had a splitting.
01:06:52And the assailant?
01:06:58Sorry.
01:07:00But your real purpose was to gain access to Chimneys...
01:07:03where the diamond was first hidden.
01:07:05I am a decent man.
01:07:07A decent man who did a stupid thing.
01:07:09I'm sorry.
01:07:11I'm a decent man.
01:07:13A decent man who did a stupid thing.
01:07:15I had no choice.
01:07:17Ditto. Absolutely.
01:07:23Anthony Cade, I'm arresting your suspicion...
01:07:25of the murder of Count Ludwig von Stanner.
01:07:31Get out!
01:07:36I love you.
01:07:39And you.
01:07:42Ready?
01:07:48Nobody say anything.
01:07:50Please.
01:07:52Just...
01:08:09I think, despite everything...
01:08:12that this must be my favourite room in the world.
01:08:19It was out of bounds as a boy.
01:08:21So naturally, it was where one longed to be.
01:08:27And this heraldic brute...
01:08:30Oh, the battles we fought...
01:08:33through shot and shot.
01:08:35Oh, the battles we fought through shot and shell.
01:08:39Armies, dragons, whole works.
01:08:43And then one summer, 12 years old...
01:08:46just tall enough to open his visor...
01:08:50my brother-in-arms was nothing at all.
01:08:53Just empty air.
01:08:55If this is you gently breaking the news...
01:08:57that Anthony Cade is no knight in shining armour...
01:09:00consider me rudely awoken.
01:09:03No, no.
01:09:05No, I'm saying that love is its own adventure.
01:09:10Take no-one for granted.
01:09:12Not even those closest to home.
01:09:16Jane, help me.
01:09:18No, no.
01:09:20I know what you're saying.
01:09:23Wish me luck.
01:09:33Excuse me, George.
01:09:35Sorry to barge in on matters of state.
01:09:38I accept.
01:09:41I beg your pardon?
01:09:42The offer.
01:09:43If it's still open.
01:09:45I know how sticky you are about Ultimatum.
01:09:47But, er...
01:09:49Cade?
01:09:51That is a dream I had.
01:09:53I am awake now.
01:09:55Oh.
01:09:57I'm, er...
01:09:59delighted to hear it.
01:10:02Oh.
01:10:22Well, well.
01:10:24The first of many.
01:10:26A drink?
01:10:28Champagne?
01:10:30A toast.
01:10:32What are you doing?
01:11:02Get off me.
01:11:06You stay there.
01:11:18A toast.
01:11:20To us.
01:11:23Cheers.
01:11:25Cheers.
01:11:32Cheers.
01:11:51What on earth was that?
01:11:53I don't see him from inside the house.
01:11:55No, in the passageway.
01:11:57Sir Cade escaped from the house.
01:12:00He must have been stuck.
01:12:08Virginia!
01:12:10Virginia!
01:12:11Mr Cade.
01:12:13All this isn't going to look very bright in court.
01:12:15Virginia!
01:12:16I want you to know.
01:12:18I want to give you something.
01:12:20The diamond.
01:12:22What did I give a damn?
01:12:24You are the only prize worth dying for.
01:12:28And it's got to be here somewhere.
01:12:30And when I find it,
01:12:32it's yours.
01:12:33Do you hear?
01:12:34Anthony!
01:12:37I've got it.
01:12:43Hey, Chief.
01:12:48Get off!
01:12:59He couldn't even get that right.
01:13:02What's he trying to prove?
01:13:04Well, he has proven one thing.
01:13:06Oh?
01:13:07His innocence.
01:13:11May I show you?
01:13:14I'm so sorry.
01:13:16Whenever you're ready.
01:13:29Everybody in position?
01:13:31Yes.
01:13:32Yeah.
01:13:33Ready?
01:13:34Yeah.
01:13:37All right, Constable, when you're ready.
01:13:47We were all standing just where we were
01:13:49the moment of the fatal gunshot.
01:13:51Agreed?
01:13:52Indeed.
01:13:53Everything just as it was?
01:13:55No.
01:13:56The gunshot.
01:13:57It was too quiet?
01:13:58Yes.
01:13:59It was much quieter, Inspector.
01:14:01Like Mr. Cade's hammering a few moments ago.
01:14:04Whereas the sound we thought was the gunshot
01:14:07made my ears ring.
01:14:09Mr. Cade, you remember,
01:14:11out in the garden.
01:14:13What did he see on that warm night?
01:14:16Someone had lit a fire.
01:14:18And then that off-cut of flecks
01:14:21that had no business being in the compost.
01:14:23A piece of fuse, Inspector.
01:14:26The Count's killer lit something
01:14:29in the chimney that evening.
01:14:31On a slow fuse, timed to explode
01:14:3415 minutes later
01:14:36to deceive us all that what we heard was a gunshot
01:14:39when what we in fact heard was a firework.
01:14:44Now, what was it you said, Inspector?
01:14:46Like it or not,
01:14:48Anthony Cade was found in that tunnel
01:14:50with the smoking gun.
01:14:53What if the gun was not smoking?
01:14:55What if the Count was killed earlier than supposed?
01:14:58After the men retired from their business
01:15:01at quarter to eleven,
01:15:02but before the alarm bell
01:15:04almost an hour later?
01:15:06Not suddenly.
01:15:08The killer could be any one of us.
01:15:10Are you sure?
01:15:11Well, you recall the Count's interest
01:15:13over dinner in the Duke of Richmond.
01:15:16No great feat to quietly invite the Count back
01:15:20after the rest of us were in bed.
01:15:22Show him the hidden bolt.
01:15:24Tempt him inside.
01:15:26Then shoot him
01:15:27and toss the gun to be found later
01:15:29as if abandoned by the killer.
01:15:32Sadly for the Count,
01:15:34he didn't die straight away.
01:15:36The murder is only mistake if mistake it was.
01:15:39Good God.
01:15:40The poor man was still living
01:15:42when Mr. Cade found him sometime later.
01:15:46Go on, Jane.
01:15:49Those letters.
01:15:52I've been woefully, unforgivably naive.
01:15:55Constance and the Captain,
01:15:57the romance of it.
01:15:59One gets swept along and yet...
01:16:02Let me pose a question.
01:16:04A pair of lovers determined to hide their secret,
01:16:08might they not write under an alias?
01:16:11Indeed. Count Ludwig called himself the Captain.
01:16:13Yes, so he did.
01:16:14But why just the Count and not Constance?
01:16:17Did she not fear exposure as much as him?
01:16:21Yes.
01:16:23Constance was also an alias.
01:16:26So the Constance of the letters
01:16:30was not Treadwell?
01:16:33Forgive me, Bundler.
01:16:36I took this from your scrapbook.
01:16:40It's a dog, so what?
01:16:42Well, it's Mama's first mutt.
01:16:45Captain, it was called Captain
01:16:48and it was safely sorted with Treadwell.
01:16:50They were like perfect lovers.
01:16:55Our mother must have thought of these aliases.
01:16:57Constance and her Captain.
01:16:59Our mother took the alias Constance.
01:17:03Your mother was the Count's secret lover.
01:17:13I don't understand.
01:17:14Are you saying that the Count and Madeline stole the diamond?
01:17:19That wretched diamond.
01:17:21We're also bewitched by the Mysore diamond.
01:17:24We forge our theories and forget the facts.
01:17:27It is so important to see things clearly,
01:17:30as if through a pane of glass and not a prism.
01:17:33Excuse me.
01:17:36Sorry.
01:17:44Good God.
01:17:49Where am I?
01:17:51I'm afraid there's no way
01:17:53the Count murdered Agnes and made off with the diamond.
01:17:57Because the diamond has been with Agnes all the time.
01:18:01In the tomb.
01:18:03Just where the killer left it.
01:18:08When we found poor Agnes's bones, do you remember?
01:18:13Your history honours in the crypt.
01:18:16Your history honours in the crypt.
01:18:19You took it then, didn't you?
01:18:21Then dropped it in the fountain.
01:18:25Why else would you be drying your hands?
01:18:38Daddy?
01:18:40Why?
01:18:43The night of the party, 32.
01:18:47I'd lost a cufflink, if you can believe it.
01:18:51I went upstairs, and then...
01:19:00No, no, no.
01:19:02No, you mustn't go in there, please.
01:19:05Please, do you not listen to what I'm saying?
01:19:08I'd not meant to kill her,
01:19:11but she tried to prevent me from seeing my wife
01:19:15and the fiddle player.
01:19:19And then my mind cleared.
01:19:24I took the diamond,
01:19:26left it with Agnes.
01:19:29Naturally, it was assumed that she'd run off with it.
01:19:34Then all that remained was to tell my wife a white lie.
01:19:40You told her Agnes had been seen...
01:19:42Cavorting with the Viennese fiddler,
01:19:46who, of course, went on writing to her for quite some time,
01:19:50but I took care of those letters.
01:19:52They would only have caused her pain.
01:19:56You know, it's funny, looking back.
01:19:59She was so easily deceived.
01:20:03These romances, so fragile.
01:20:09There's no real devotion at all.
01:20:12Not such as we all had, together.
01:20:19There's a family here at Chinness.
01:20:22She was unhappy. Trapped.
01:20:25No wonder she got ill.
01:20:27But after she died, you found the earlier letters, didn't you?
01:20:31From the captain.
01:20:33She'd kept them safe all these years.
01:20:35Yes, indeed.
01:20:38Every word.
01:20:40So that when Mr Lomax showed you the letter from Count Ludwig,
01:20:44suggesting a visit to Chinness,
01:20:46you knew the handwriting at once,
01:20:48a precise match of the old love letters,
01:20:51and you knew...
01:20:52The captain was on his way.
01:20:57But why the firework?
01:21:00Why 11.45?
01:21:02Mr Eversleigh, is it possible that the letter you wrote to Mr Cade
01:21:08was in fact left unsealed?
01:21:11Your guest has arrived, sir.
01:21:13Still on the desk?
01:21:15Letters for posting on His Lordship's desk.
01:21:21All that remained was to add the time.
01:21:26You wrote and posted the letter to Cade yourself?
01:21:31And staged the gunshot for 11.45 to incriminate Cade.
01:21:35What better way to be rid of your enemies?
01:21:38Frame one for the killing of the other.
01:21:40Cade is no good.
01:21:42You said as much yourself.
01:21:44And as for this plan to ship you off to Africa...
01:21:48Now, don't look at me like that.
01:21:50You cannot build a marriage on lies.
01:21:53Aren't you supposed to build it on love?
01:21:56And Treadwell?
01:21:58As we thought.
01:22:00Poisoned not by the foxglove leaves,
01:22:04but by your tonic.
01:22:07Active ingredient, digitalis.
01:22:10Huge overdose.
01:22:12No, I do regret that.
01:22:15She was a faithful servant.
01:22:17More faithful than you knew.
01:22:19You were so fearful that she would tell the inspector about the affair.
01:22:23On the contrary.
01:22:25She was taking measures to protect her mistress's secret.
01:22:28Soon as Agnes' bones were recovered,
01:22:31she took the letters from amongst your possessions to her own room.
01:22:35If I'd let her live,
01:22:38no one would have found out.
01:22:42Is that what you mean?
01:22:44Well, that's it then.
01:22:47Not quite.
01:22:49Dad?
01:22:53Return one day for the greatest jewel.
01:22:56No, stop.
01:22:58What if this jewel was a diamond of a different kind?
01:23:03Stop!
01:23:04Whatever it is, we have a right to know.
01:23:08A rose.
01:23:10Not just any rose.
01:23:13A Richmond rose.
01:23:18Richmond 20 North 3 East.
01:23:20So the Richmond referred to is not the portrait.
01:23:23Precisely.
01:23:25The rose of Richmond.
01:23:27Oh.
01:23:30Well, that's a shame.
01:23:33The rose of Richmond.
01:23:35Oh.
01:23:37Well, these directions, where do they lead?
01:23:59I don't understand.
01:24:03The Count's last words, do you remember?
01:24:06Levant, the wall.
01:24:08We thought he meant the wall in the passageway,
01:24:11but this Virginia creeper, when was it planted?
01:24:16Madeline planted it 23 years ago
01:24:20to celebrate your birth.
01:24:22Virginia creeper.
01:24:26He knew, I'm sure he did, as he lay dying.
01:24:30The rose, the dance, it all made sense.
01:24:37I think your mother wrote to the Count shortly before she passed away.
01:24:43The coded letter.
01:24:47She didn't want the truth to die with her, not quite.
01:24:52So you mean...
01:24:53You were the greatest jewel.
01:24:56He'd come to take you away.
01:24:58My own little girl.
01:25:08My darling girl.
01:25:13He was my father.
01:25:20No.
01:25:22No.
01:25:29No.
01:25:49You'd feel if you were to let go now.
01:25:51I won't.
01:25:53And just float off?
01:25:55No, I won't.
01:25:59Come on.
01:26:01No use putting off the inevitable.
01:26:03Are you going to tell her or shall I?
01:26:05Oh, I...
01:26:07I think it's best coming from me.
01:26:12Blankensort!
01:26:22Oh, dear.
01:26:24Underwear like that at all?
01:26:27But you're not selling chimneys.
01:26:30Well, Bundle couldn't bear to stay on and I don't want to live here.
01:26:34So what do you think?
01:26:35Pass the whole headache on to Blankensort and her tea and scones.
01:26:38Why not?
01:26:40Will she be all right? Bundle, I mean.
01:26:42Oh, she'll foist herself onto some undeserving cause.
01:26:45Her father?
01:26:46I suppose.
01:26:47And you?
01:26:51Here they come.
01:26:54Happy marriage.
01:26:57Can't be that difficult, can it?
01:26:59Go with your heart.
01:27:01Like Mother.
01:27:03I keep thinking if she loved her count so much,
01:27:06why was she so quick to believe he'd run off?
01:27:09I suppose love is an act of courage.
01:27:18Yes.
01:27:21Oh.
01:27:25Miss Marple.
01:27:26Goodbye, Inspector.
01:27:29I see now I've grown too fond of my own reputation.
01:27:33I was so bewitched by the blasted diamond.
01:27:37And now look at me, the latest of your casualties.
01:27:42What do you think?
01:27:44Interpol want me to take it to South Africa
01:27:47and trap this villainous fellow from Pretoria?
01:27:50You know, Inspector, I don't care for it at all.
01:27:56Goodbye.
01:28:17Oh.
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