- 5/21/2025
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Syria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death. Starring: David Suchet, Tim Curry, Jawad Elalami.
Syria 1937. While accompanying her husband on an archaeological dig, the abusive and overbearing Lady Boynton is found stabbed to death. Starring: David Suchet, Tim Curry, Jawad Elalami.
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00:00I'm going to put this in the water and I'm going to let it sit for a couple of days.
00:15I'm going to put this in the water and I'm going to let it sit for a couple of days.
00:20I'm going to put this in the water and I'm going to let it sit for a couple of days.
00:31Dame Celia, Lord Boynton, what is it that you read?
00:36I'm cheering the bereaved with judicious extracts from the perfumed garden.
00:40Are people saying that I killed my wife?
00:44No, no monsieur. We are all united in our desire to comfort you.
00:52I was always glad that I was older than Leonora. I thought at least I'll die first.
01:01I won't have the agony of trying to live without her.
01:12Nevertheless, it must be admitted the death of Lady B is hardly detrimental to the community.
01:17But it is not well, monsieur, that a human being should die before her time it is come.
01:21Aunt Plu, the nanny, Madame Taylor has the great distress.
01:24All right, all right. Keep your hair off. For heaven's sake, I was just trying to lighten the mood.
01:31How did you achieve your newspaper, Monsieur Cope?
01:34It came with me.
01:35Many thanks. I'm just lousy at being intrepid. Always so hungry for news of home.
01:41Back at the hotel, you couldn't get a paper for love nor money.
01:44I know.
01:58This may help you in times of stress.
02:00Mon Colonel.
02:04Your men, when is it that they arrive?
02:06Midnight, I should think.
02:08Then you must have them search this area at dawn. The search most diligent, all around.
02:14Looking for what?
02:16In the first place, mon ami, a syringe. It is instrumental in the murder of Lady Boynton.
02:22Right. Good grief. It will be done.
02:26Oh, you see, mon ami, the voices of the little gracers, they have begun to sing to Poirot.
02:56Slip throat.
03:06Je comprends pas. It is not the customs you pay to waste life and food in this man.
03:14Barbarous.
03:16Monsieur, merci.
03:30Look, Poirot, sorry to be so standoffish. A bit grim, seeing one's father cry.
03:38Mais je vous en prie, monsieur.
03:40What do you want to know?
03:42I should like, monsieur, for you to tell me if you spoke to your stepmother yesterday afternoon, and if so, when.
03:48We spoke about one o'clock, the hottest part of the day.
03:54She'd been perched up there like some evil great pudding ever since you lot set off.
04:02I say we spoke. I spoke. She ignored me.
04:08Nothing unusual about that.
04:10Did she forget you anything at all to drink?
04:13You know how it was.
04:15I mustn't disturb her when she was taking the sun, but God help you if you neglected to do so.
04:22Monsieur, we found this syringe.
04:25Where was this discovered?
04:27In the tent occupied by the old lady.
04:29The nanny?
04:33Merci.
04:46And the Lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways, and compel them to come into my feast, that my house may be filled.
04:59It's a beautiful parable.
05:01The word King James renders as compel is in the Greek anankadzo.
05:07It means compel with violence.
05:11The Spanish knew this.
05:13They used this single word to justify every atrocity of their inquisition.
05:19For it is God's own command that those unwilling to enter his kingdom should be persuaded in with pain.
05:27That's terrible.
05:30Compulsion of any kind, my dear.
05:32It can be terrible.
05:36I overheard my stepfather telling the story that was written here.
05:40Death following the man across the desert.
05:50Something has followed me here to this place.
05:53Something evil.
05:56God is here to guard you, Jenny.
05:59He lives in every grain of sand.
06:29What is it now?
06:58What is it now?
07:01Sorry, gentlemen, sand in the grooves.
07:04Quite.
07:05Well, the Arabs were all accounted for.
07:07Why?
07:10In this case, it is most unsatisfactory.
07:14There were plenty of suspects, old boy.
07:16Yes, but almost all of them were outside of the camp at the time that the murder was committed.
07:20And this is corroborated by a witness who is impeccable.
07:24Me.
07:26They were with Poirot all of the time.
07:27Raymond wasn't.
07:28He came back.
07:31Also Lord Boynton and his son.
07:33Yes, yes.
07:34And tomorrow we begin the further interrogations.
07:40That's a queer one.
07:43Now, without doubt, there is more to Monsieur Coke than he wishes to be known.
07:48But in that desire and in this company, he is not unique.
08:02Here we are, quickly.
08:04Off in this direction.
08:07Where did it come from?
08:14What is that?
08:15I don't know.
08:19Is there anyone moving?
08:21No.
08:22Where did it come from?
08:25It's got to be something.
08:31Over there.
08:38Get on tight, quickly.
08:41It's okay.
08:46You men, come here.
08:49Listen, there's only a few of them.
08:57Don't let anyone leave.
09:07It's okay.
09:14It's okay.
09:17It's okay.
09:18Shh.
09:19It's okay.
09:26Everything's going to be okay.
09:31Can I help?
09:38Useful to know what she's trying to tell us.
09:41She's not trying to tell us anything.
09:42She's talking to God.
09:44You have Polish, Monsieur.
09:45You don't need Polish to spot a woman at her prayers.
09:48Very pretty needlework, Doc.
09:49Shouldn't we be getting her back to the hotel?
09:52Ask Dr. King.
09:54You're the senior physician here.
09:56Maybe you're much prettier.
09:57You're handier with the cutlery.
09:59Besides, the non-Georg patient I've got my hands full with a loony nanny.
10:02Well, this, what I've done, it's only temporary.
10:05So, yes, we should...
10:07It would be helpful to Pueco for all of us to return.
10:13That's Latin.
10:15Forgive him.
10:16Pueco has little Latin, but it could also be, I think, forgive her.
10:21My men can try.
10:23No, no, no.
10:24There is no need to dispatch your men, Colonel.
10:27The assailant of Sister Agnieszka has not fled.
10:33There was a man.
10:37He followed me across the desert.
10:42I woke up and he was putting a bag over my head.
10:48Slaver.
10:50Bound to be.
10:52People think the slave trade is finished.
10:53It's not.
10:54I've seen the waiting caves on the beach at Mangopwane.
10:57One hundred souls crammed into a space isle bigger than this tent.
11:01I threw myself on the floor to get away.
11:07When I looked up, I saw...
11:09You saw Sister Agnieszka was struggling with your attacker?
11:15And...
11:17Well, you tried to help her.
11:19And you struck at the man with what?
11:23A weapon.
11:26And in your terror and in the dark, accidentally you struck your friend and protect her.
11:34Now, you try to get some sleep, if you can.
11:38Because tomorrow we face the rigors of the return journey.
11:46Come close, Ginny.
11:49Let me tell you a story.
11:53This...
11:55Is the legend of Gilgamesh.
12:23Shukra.
12:34Will she be all right?
12:37The nun?
12:38Oh, God knows.
12:41Will you?
12:43I'm not wounded.
12:45That's debatable.
12:50Seems to be consensus that you killed your mother.
12:54Is that your view, Sarah?
12:56Heavens.
12:58Five consecutive words culminating my Christian name.
13:02If you're going to be as garrulous as this, Mr. Boynton, I shall have to ask you to be less familiar.
13:06Do you think I killed her?
13:08No.
13:10No, but what I think is irrelevant.
13:12He's the one you need to convince.
13:17You're the authority on stories?
13:19Tell me.
13:22What was it that got loose when Pandora opened the box?
13:26Or the evils of the world?
13:28That's it.
13:31Madness, greed, shame.
13:35Those guys.
13:36My stepfather did pretty much the same thing.
13:40He took the cork out of that goddamn tomb.
13:43And here you are, Huaro.
13:48Kicking the contents all over town.
13:51Did Lady Boynton harm you physically?
13:56My mother had little recourse to violence.
13:58She was too smart for that.
14:00Instead, she just pried open the top of her skulls and raked her poisonous tongue through our brains.
14:09No place to hide, Huaro.
14:13Even in your own head?
14:17Emmer.
14:18Carol.
14:20Carol grew up petrified.
14:22Did her best to ingratiate herself, you know.
14:24To win approval she never got.
14:28Ginny just was terrified to the point of madness.
14:35Possibly beyond.
14:47Burrow!
14:49Did you murder your mother, monsieur?
14:53No.
14:55But only because I lacked the moral courage.
14:59She was a monster.
15:01Burrow, it was her pleasure.
15:03Always to watch us suffer.
15:07Why was she driven to be so cruel?
15:10Punishes, I guess.
15:11For what offense?
15:14For being someone else's kids.
15:25It's true.
15:26We were adopted.
15:28All of us.
15:31It is no crime against God or nature to be an orphan.
15:35Oh, but it is, monsieur.
15:38It is a hideous crime.
15:41Lady Boynton and Mrs. Piers, as she was then,
15:45she wanted to have children so badly
15:49but between her and Mr. Piers they couldn't make it happen.
15:53You know, for mom, adoption was the only route.
15:59But once she'd assembled her family,
16:01of which there were many candidates...
16:07Don't!
16:10...and rejected a great number.
16:17Oh, yes, monsieur, there were many children
16:19who were presented to us as new siblings
16:23only to be removed a day later.
16:25One child stayed longer than the others
16:27but the beatings went on until she also disappeared.
16:30So there we were.
16:32We're a lucky few, Raymond, Carol and Ginny.
16:36I don't understand.
16:38Mademoiselle Ginny, she was not even born.
16:42Who was this other child?
16:44I don't know.
16:48I can't remember.
16:51Who was that little girl?
16:55Unacceptable goods.
17:08Merci.
17:18Who is the child that you beat, madame?
17:22Can you tell it to Poirot?
17:39Leslie.
17:41Yes, Leslie.
17:47Can you tell to me about Leslie, madame?
17:52You had to beat her?
17:56She needed to be punished?
17:58I did what was required of me.
18:08Help!
18:13I don't think we're sufficiently sorry.
18:16Not by a long chalk.
18:18Again, nanny?
18:24She was an evil woman.
18:28And Leslie, madame?
18:30What became of her?
18:32She is alive?
18:34Father?
18:37I'm not your father, my dear.
18:40But I'll do my best. Could you get me that bag?
18:43I'll do my best to make you comfortable.
18:46All right?
18:52Fork standard sedative.
18:54Check it if you want, Poirot.
18:56Come on.
18:58There's a good girl.
19:00Poirot.
19:31Oh, monsieur Cope.
19:33Monsieur, do you have a moment?
19:35But of course.
19:37I don't know if this has any relevance to what's been going on,
19:42but it seems I've lost quite a lot of money.
19:45Monsieur Cope, je suis désolé.
19:47No, no, that's OK.
19:49What's of interest is that the stock that's gone down the pan
19:52is the Pierce Holding Company.
19:54No.
19:56Yes, Lady Boynton's outfit.
19:59Fireproof, bombproof.
20:01The safest bet on Wall Street.
20:03I myself invested substantially.
20:06Seems that while we've been away,
20:08there's been this rumour about the true value of the company.
20:11These things, they come and go.
20:13Lady Boynton would generally get up on our hind legs,
20:16tell everyone to shut up and sit up straight.
20:19It had all calmed down.
20:21But she wasn't there.
20:23The rumour became a panic,
20:25then a stampede to get out.
20:27The whole outfit's bussed to hell.
20:29The shares are worthless.
20:58Oh, God.
21:00Here comes that ghastly little Belgian,
21:03wringing his hands like the cowman come to collect his Christmas box.
21:07He's being respectful, Father.
21:09He's being a damn nuisance.
21:11Monsieur.
21:13Come for a nightcap among the bereaved?
21:16Merci, Lord Boynton.
21:23Oh, for God's sake, sit down, Poirot.
21:26You're giving me indigestion, hovering like that.
21:29Merci.
21:34I suppose it is quite proper that I should be questioned.
21:38I was on the spot at the time,
21:40and I imagine I inherit my wife's estate, so...
21:43And the estate of Lady Boynton, of what does this principally consist?
21:47Oh, God knows.
21:49I never had charge of the money.
21:51Leonora just subbed the digging as it went along.
21:54Do you know Leonard?
21:56Raymond would have a clear idea of value,
21:58but it must add up to a few quid.
22:01You disagree, monsieur?
22:03Since we have been in Syria,
22:05there has been the financial collapse, catastrophe.
22:08The Pierce Holding Company is utterly disintegrated.
22:13It seems that the death of Lady Boynton was not enough.
22:16It also seems that she has been obliterated from the earth.
22:21It may surprise you to know, Mr Poirot,
22:23that I am not unaware that Lady Boynton was not universally adored.
22:27Like many women who know their own mind,
22:29she found it all too easy to make enemies.
22:32She did not make an enemy of me.
22:36I loved her.
22:38I'm not ashamed to say so.
22:41To you, or to my son.
22:45Was it necessary to air that observation in quite that way?
22:49The methods of Poirot, monsieur, cannot always be agreeable.
23:15Madame. Excusez-moi, Dame Celia.
23:18Were you acquainted with Lady Boynton before encountering her at the tomb?
23:22Well, I'd seen her about.
23:26And where had you seen her, madame?
23:29Lady Boynton was pointed out to me by a man.
23:33I don't know who he was.
23:35I don't know.
23:37I don't know.
23:39I don't know.
23:42Lady Boynton was pointed out to me by a man at a party
23:45who then proceeded to tell me rather a lot about her,
23:48about the way in particular she treated her children.
23:50I decided then and there I had no wish to further acquaintance
23:53with the woman by introducing myself to her.
23:55She sounded perfectly odious.
23:57And who was this man that was so well-informed?
24:01I didn't catch his name.
24:05I wanted her dead, too, just in case you were wondering.
24:09She was clearly blocking my way.
24:11Raymond couldn't even look me in the eye with her still in existence.
24:14So do you commend yourself to me as a suspect, mademoiselle?
24:17I commend myself to you as one who has recently invested
24:20a great deal of time in a relationship that was always heading nowhere.
24:24I now know that when I find something I want,
24:27I must act to take it.
24:29Bravo!
24:31Sadly, all this resolution has taken your mind off the game.
24:35It's a little trick I learned the other day in Vienna.
24:38You see, just when you least expect it, the church comes storming back.
24:44Checkmate.
24:46Checkmate.
25:07I didn't know you smoked.
25:10I don't.
25:13I've given up.
25:15Since you threw the cigarette away, you've given up.
25:18Well, your determination is impressive.
25:20All six seconds of it.
25:22Well, keep talking. I could go ten.
25:24If I hadn't spoken, would you just have kept watching me?
25:29Well, I'll never know.
25:32You're a strange man.
25:34Does that matter?
25:36Not necessarily.
25:39Raymond?
25:41Yeah?
25:43Now is the time to kiss me.
25:45Yeah.
26:00Anybody here who's a man?
26:03Anybody here who's a man?
26:05Anybody here who's a man?
26:33I'm a man.
27:04If you're not a man, I'm a woman.
27:08I'm a woman.
27:10I'm a woman.
27:12I'm a woman.
27:16Anybody here who's a man?
27:18I'm a woman.
27:20I'm a woman.
27:22I'm a woman.
27:48I'm a woman.
27:59They have him by God.
28:01They have found the head of John.
28:03News that is astonishing, monsieur.
28:05I must return to Ain Moussa immediately.
28:09Is there a problem?
28:11Nanny Taylor has drowned herself in the bath.
28:15Suicide.
28:16Oh, my God.
28:18That's awful news.
28:20Is somebody dealing with it?
28:22Oui, monsieur.
28:23Because I must...
28:25I must get back to the dig.
28:28I can't, you know.
28:30Oui.
28:33Moral of the story being, if you want your death to attract the concern of your employer,
28:37make sure you're 2,000 years old.
28:40Oh!
28:41I keep meaning to give you something.
28:45It's the details of the immigration you needed,
28:48and on the back here is a list of employees.
28:50Merci.
28:52As requested, I've had a word with Mahmoud.
28:55Some of his boys are privately saying that there was some character lurking about on the ladder that afternoon.
29:01An Arab. Not one of them.
29:03But that was a good hour or so before the time of death.
29:07This case is a mess, warrior.
29:10Not so, mon ami.
29:12This case, when Poirot has almost given up
29:16scrabbling for purchase on its shell of armour,
29:20oof,
29:22it opens to him like a flower.
29:24Good lord.
29:27So, what do we do?
29:30We do what the murderer least expects Poirot to do.
29:35We return to the dig.
29:38All of us.
29:42Ahem.
29:45Ahem.
30:10This case, mes amis,
30:13it is full of the red fish.
30:18Herrings, possibly?
30:20Merci.
30:21There's so many diversions, so many distractions.
30:27Attend well to Poirot as he peels them away like the skin of an onion.
30:31Herrings, onions.
30:33Do get a wriggle on. There's a good fella.
30:36Lord Boynton, your wife, she funded your expeditions as you went along.
30:41How much more efficient it would be to have the money all at once, no?
30:45Well, there is no money.
30:47Non, vraiment, monsieur, for you, non, there never has been.
30:50For the running of Boynton Hall,
30:52alors, is for you always most arduous.
30:56Lady Boynton, she was always most munificent to your father,
31:00but never towards his son.
31:03You can stare at me significantly as long as you like, monsieur.
31:07I've done nothing wrong.
31:09Tell to Poirot what was in the bag.
31:12What bag?
31:14What did you agree to purchase from the ragged Arab boy?
31:18I remember the boy. I don't remember what rubbish he was flogging.
31:22Fortunately, Poirot, he does.
31:25And from it, he extracted this.
31:40Voilà.
31:42Voilà what?
31:48Well, it's a tooth.
31:50D'être précis, it is a molar taken from the upper jaw of Saint John.
31:55You will observe that it bears the traces of the filling of gold.
32:00For this skull, it was supposed to masquerade as the skull of Jean-Xavier Baptiste.
32:06The skull of Jean-Xavier Baptiste.
32:09But in fact, it is, as you say, monsieur Lennart, rubbish.
32:13What the devil are you talking about, man?
32:16This wasn't purchased from a hawker and planted.
32:20This is untouched.
32:23This entire sample was exhumed a situ intacto.
32:30Forgive me, Poirot, but you're dribbling utter bilge.
32:35My father has explained. This object was discovered undisturbed.
32:41It's a perfect fit.
32:49I don't understand.
32:53All your life, father,
32:56traipsing about the Middle East,
32:59time after time, finding absolutely nothing of significance.
33:04I wanted it to end.
33:07You dear, deluded, stupid man.
33:11I never expected your wife's bloody money. I never wanted it.
33:15I wanted you to be free of this need to find what you've been looking for.
33:23Do you mind if I step out for a while?
33:27I'll come with you.
33:29No. I simply wish to be alone for a moment.
33:33Is that permitted?
33:36Je vous en prie, monsieur.
33:53And now the three of you.
33:56The litany of cruelties you have endured,
34:01the ceaseless humiliations.
34:08You multiply these incidents by hundreds and thousands,
34:11and the corrosion of the spirit, it is inevitable and insupportable.
34:17No wonder you wish to see Lady Boynton dead.
34:21Indeed, Poirot, he overheard you, Mademoiselle Carrara,
34:24and you, Monsieur Raymond, whispering that your mother,
34:28she must die.
34:31And you, Dr. King,
34:34by your own admission, you also wish to see her dead.
34:37You are a woman who has wasted time on this,
34:40decided and determined to waste no more.
34:43What do we know of you, Monsieur Cope?
34:47Me?
34:50Will you show to me your passport?
34:59Merci.
35:03You choose to use your second Christian name and not your first?
35:06Yes.
35:08Why have you allowed yourself to be judged?
35:11Yes.
35:12Why have you elected to do so, I wonder?
35:15My first given name is ambiguous in terms of gender.
35:19The spelling is different, but it's also a girl's name.
35:25As a child, I found that tiresome.
35:28I would suggest that there are many things about your childhood that you found tiresome.
35:33Monsieur Leslie Jefferson Cope.
35:41No!
35:47I don't think we're sufficiently sorry.
35:50The child that was thrashed so brutally on the orders of Lady Boynton
35:56was not a girl as misremembered by her daughter Carol, no,
36:02but a boy by the name of Leslie.
36:07And if you know all that, you'll also know that I didn't kill her.
36:12Merely to deprive her of her life, Monsieur, would afford for your satisfaction more scant.
36:16No, you wanted to make her life unbearable, to degrade her,
36:21to hurt the woman as she hurt you.
36:29Lady Boynton was a person preoccupied with station and money,
36:32and you decided to strip her of them both.
36:35You wish to remain assured of your very best services?
36:38What service in particular did you wish to remain assured?
36:40You have no newspapers of any description.
36:44I am so sorry.
36:45The withholding from Lady Boynton of the newspapers
36:49that would keep her ignorant of the panic that you yourself had inspired
36:52to ensure the destruction of our empire.
36:55I'm just lousy at being intrepid.
36:58Back at the hotel, you couldn't get a paper for a love nor money.
37:01And like the competence trickster so accomplished,
37:05you invested in your own deceit.
37:08You wrote off thousands of dollars of your own savings
37:11merely to blow smoke in the face of Poirot.
37:13Oh, Monsieur Cope.
37:15It seems I've lost quite a lot of money.
37:18Hello.
37:24Poirot has one more red herring left to fry,
37:29and it is a fish most substantial.
37:33Le Colonel Mesamie, he is not a policeman,
37:36but he's retained by the Foreign Office.
37:39His mission in Syria was to uncover and destroy
37:41the trafficking of female slaves,
37:43the abduction and sale of women,
37:47for one purpose only.
37:49Pardonnez-moi, madame.
37:51I knew it. Arab women.
37:53Whatever the client ordered.
37:55White women? Yes.
37:57They wanted me.
38:00Et là, mademoiselle,
38:03it is the opinion of Poirot
38:07that there is a person who instructed his agent
38:11to search for a young lady who is Caucasian
38:14and resembled you exactement,
38:16with your skin that is pale and your hair that is red.
38:22Who is this agent, Poirot?
38:25Is he here amongst us now?
38:28Certainement, mademoiselle Ginny,
38:31when you struck at your attacker that night,
38:33oh, you hit your target.
38:36It's okay.
38:38The woman who befriended you so assiduously,
38:41it was she who was smothering your face.
38:44Sister Agnieszka.
38:53Rot in hell.
38:57Your sister will face the consequences.
39:01The key to the murder of Lady Boynton.
39:05It is not who, it is when.
39:09Dame Celia, do you have any children?
39:12No, I do not.
39:14I urge you to reconsider your answer, madame.
39:17I cannot reconsider. I have no children.
39:20Well, then, madame, you are a liar.
39:25You have a daughter, and she is amongst us now.
39:28That is a filthy lie.
39:30And in extremely poor taste.
39:32So you disown her now as you did when she was a baby?
39:35Reclaim her of your own volition.
39:38You owe to her a debt of ungiven love.
39:43I had no choice. No choice.
39:48I had no choice. No choice.
39:54What was your position in the household of Lady Boynton
39:57in the days when she was Mrs Pierce?
40:01A junior maid.
40:03Oui, c'est ça.
40:04A servant of the lowest position, whose duty it is to scrub.
40:08Not to become pregnant by a guest of your employer.
40:12The woman to whom you surrendered your child on the day of its birth
40:16Is it me?
40:18No, mademoiselle Carol.
40:21It is not you.
40:25Oh, my God.
40:29I'm so sorry.
40:47You gave birth to me.
40:51And delivered me up to that bitch.
40:54I came to save you.
40:58How did you know this?
41:02Oh, mademoiselle.
41:04Bravo, he did not know for certain.
41:07Until this very moment.
41:11Every moment.
41:16No, no, no, mademoiselle.
41:19Oh, Colonel.
41:20Oh, he is much obliged to you for the accounts of the household
41:23and the registry of immigration which shows that three weeks after the baby it was born
41:28Celia Westholm arrived on the coast of Ireland to be taken care of.
41:34Of by nuns.
41:38Your child, she'd been taken from you.
41:41And so you were now to become invisible.
41:43To nurse your shame.
41:45But you were not to be the outcast, no.
41:47You were to recreate yourself as a free spirit.
41:51A writer, a traveller.
41:53A success.
41:55Babe Celia Westholm.
41:57And every time you thought of your daughter,
42:01you consoled yourself with the hope that she was happy
42:05but she had not begun life afresh.
42:07She was not happy.
42:10She remained as a prisoner in the household of Lady Boynton.
42:20And your regret, it came flooding back
42:25to boil in your heart.
42:30Let me tell you a story.
42:33This is the legend of Gilgamesh.
42:40Gilgamesh was the most beautiful man of all creation.
42:55And so you went in search of the father of your child, eh?
42:58To Vienna, so out of the way of your customary travels.
43:01And together with this man, you agreed
43:04to investigate to see whether the cruelties of Lady Boynton, they were true.
43:08And you discovered that all of the children had been tormented.
43:14It was not the hornet that stung Lady Boynton.
43:17How could it?
43:19Sari might have been stung.
43:21The hornet, it was already dead.
43:25You stung her with this.
43:32Ah!
43:33Which you then returned to Dr. Gerard, who had prepared it for you.
43:37I am stung.
43:39He then cleaned it and discarded it in the tent of Nanny Taylor to implicate her.
43:45This is colossal!
43:48What was it?
43:52What was in the syringe?
43:56A concoction of your own devising, Doctor, probably based on morphia.
44:00You can't kill a woman the size of La Boynton with a thimble full of morphia.
44:05As you well know.
44:07Doctor, you affect no little of the administering of drugs,
44:11where on affair you are the expert.
44:13You greet Poirot and ask him if he remembers you from Edinburgh.
44:19Poirot, he remembers everything.
44:22For when you took the witness stand in Edinburgh to speak on the life of the mind,
44:26the clerk of the court, he read out your qualifications.
44:29And anesthesia, Doctor, was your discipline long before psychiatry.
44:34No, of course, you cannot kill Lady Boynton with such a dose,
44:37but you can remove from her control of the nervous system
44:40the power over her movement, the power over her speech.
44:45And Lady Boynton, who professed herself a lover of the sun,
44:50was now roasting to death and could say nothing.
44:57Ingenious, monsieur.
45:00And commendably grotesque.
45:02But Lady Boynton did not roast to death.
45:05She was stabbed.
45:07Oh, your prestidigitation with drugs, Doctor, was not over yet.
45:10You injected yourself to simulate the symptoms of malaria,
45:14symptoms so authentic that you fooled even Dr. King.
45:19I'll be fine.
45:20This gentleman needs to return to camp.
45:22Your mam was a genie. She attended you.
45:26And how did you repay her for her kindness?
45:29By giving to her another sedative of your own invention
45:34to consolidate your alibi.
45:37Earlier you had killed a goat
45:39and trapped a quantity of its blood in a ball of wax.
45:43This object you secreted in the folds of the clothes of your victim,
45:47wherein you caused it would melt in the heat of the sun.
45:50One can never have enough sun.
45:55You could have killed her then,
45:57but you wanted her to suffer for as long as possible.
46:01Speak up, dear.
46:03I can't help you if you don't speak up.
46:06You used the ball of wax to confuse the time of death.
46:09And it was this wax that Poirot, he discovered,
46:12on the dress of Lady Boynton and on the floorboards
46:15and the little piece of pottery beneath her chair.
46:20Wax which told to Poirot that there was an accomplice to the murder.
46:25Et puis, you waited patiently.
46:29The wax, it melted.
46:31The blood of the goat, it began to flow,
46:34suggesting to the naked eye that she had already been stabbed.
46:38And at last, the cry, it went up to tell the world
46:43that Lady Boynton was dead.
46:45But she was not dead.
46:47No, not yet.
46:49You're the girl who's a doctor?
46:50Yes.
46:51And you've met death.
46:52So have I.
46:53Come on.
46:54Only now was death to meet its victim.
46:58And in the sight of everyone,
47:00in the sight of Poirot himself,
47:03you, Dame Celia,
47:05murdered Lady Boynton with your own hands,
47:08as prescribed by Dr. Gerard,
47:10to quench your rage.
47:13It took but a few seconds,
47:15and even Dr. King was deceived into believing
47:18that Lady Boynton had died earlier that day.
47:22If you please to empty the contents of your handbag.
47:27Ahoy.
47:29And Dr. Gerard,
47:31he encouraged Poirot to seek for the chisel, eh?
47:34Chisel fits the bill.
47:39Where is the murder weapon that was in your hand all of the day?
47:43Goodness.
47:45We did go to considerable trouble.
47:49One question.
47:52One question.
47:54What makes you think any of this has any basis whatsoever in the truth?
48:01Nanny Taylor.
48:03Dear God!
48:04Did I kill her as well, or was she one of yours?
48:07You disordered her mind with a solution of mescaline so strong
48:10that the very speck of it made the head of Poirot to spin.
48:14You wanted to promote in her her hallucinations,
48:17to make her susceptible to suggestion.
48:19You burdened her mind with so much shame and guilt
48:22that given the opportunity you knew that she would do harm to herself.
48:26You know you can't go on.
48:29After everything that you did.
48:33Think what you helped her to do to little Ginny.
48:40What did Nanny Taylor say to you?
48:44This was not the ravings of a nervous breakdown.
48:49For you yourself had told to her
48:51that you were the father of Mademoiselle Ginny.
49:05Portrait of Mum and Dad.
49:09You'll appreciate now why I declined your particular offer of affection.
49:18Well, well, this is a pickle.
49:24Say that to save you.
49:26Destroyed everything.
49:30Thank you, Pierre.
49:32That's all part of the service.
49:35No extra charge.
49:44I never stopped loving you, you know.
49:49Now...
49:56Be careful with this one, Poirot.
49:59Digitalis.
50:01The action, as you will appreciate, is irreversible.
50:05I'm so sorry.
50:09We hoped it wouldn't come to this.
50:15There, there, there.
50:17There, there, there.
50:24Done, Doctor.
50:30Look to the living.
50:34They pay their bills quicker
50:38and they make better...
50:43...conversations.
50:47It's...
51:17...fine.
52:47Monsieur.
53:01Monsieur.
53:03I've just been chatting to Lord Boynton
53:06and, um, he pronounces himself cured of archaeology.
53:11Chatting?
53:12Oui.
53:13Monsieur Raymond, in the matter of Pandora,
53:17you will recall that after all the evils had escaped from the box,
53:21there was one other creature, very small, very frail,
53:26that followed them into the world?
53:29Hope.
53:32Au revoir, la jeunesse.
53:44Monsieur Poirot.
53:45Mademoiselle.
53:46Carol and I are going to Egypt to see the Sphinx.
53:49It's not much of an adventure, but we're doing it on our own.
53:53It's a start.
53:54It was actually my idea.
53:56Lady Boynton would have said I was constitutionally too feeble,
54:00that my skin was too fair.
54:02But I think it's probably time I showed my feeble skin who's boss.
54:06C'est bien, mademoiselle.
54:08C'est bien, mademoiselle.
54:10Before he leaves, you will permit an old man to pontificate?
54:15Alors, mademoiselle, there is nothing in the world so damaged
54:20that it cannot be repaired by the hand of Almighty God.
54:24I encourage you to know this, because without this certainty,
54:28we should all of us be mad.
54:39Je vous salue, mademoiselle.
54:44Au revoir.
55:08Au revoir.
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