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The enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 detectives to his opulent apartment. Starring: David Suchet, James Alper, Philip Bowen, Zoë Wanamaker.
The enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 detectives to his opulent apartment. Starring: David Suchet, James Alper, Philip Bowen, Zoë Wanamaker.
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00:00I had a good poke around but I didn't see anything too suspicious. Yet to tell the truth,
00:09something rather off about their relationship. Now the roadie girl, she's the one with the money,
00:16yet I would say she's jealous of Anne. Anne's the one with the admirers. There were, I think,
00:26some photographs of her father but absolutely none of her mother. Well, that's it. I expect
00:35you've done vastly more detecting than I have. Au contraire, madame. You have told to me a great
00:40deal. For myself, the only information that I have is that Dr. Roberts, he had a lover.
00:47Oh, really? Oui. A lady called Craddock. She went to Egypt where, regrettably, she died. Lord,
00:58I went to Egypt once. It was dismal. The pyramids are actually tiny. You have to have about a
01:04million ghastly injections before you go. And the insects. Oh, that reminds me. Here. Major
01:17Despard's opus. Your opinion, madame, as an expert? Well, he could have done with a decent
01:25editor, that's for sure. Here, take a look. Describe the room. I don't know that I'm much
01:32of a hand at that sort of thing. Well, to my mind, it was a rotten sort of a room. Not a man's
01:37room at all. All brocade and silk and stuff. Awful. He did have a couple of top-notch Persian rugs,
01:45though. A Hamadan and, uh, I think a Debris. Do you play much bridge, Major? No. It's a good
01:56game, though. Well, you prefer it to poker? I do, personally. Pokers do much of a gamble.
02:01Do you think Shaytana played any card games? There's only one game that Shaytana played,
02:10a lowdown game. Look, we all make mistakes. Even you, I dare say, have a failure now,
02:20no? Well, the last one was 28 years ago. So a woman was involved? Yes. Shaytana preferred to
02:29deal with women. He blackmailed them? No, he got a kick out of it. That's the only way I can put it.
02:38He got a kick out of seeing people's fear. He was a louse, Burrow. What are you doing here? I was
02:54at a legal firm nearby. I thought it had been too long. Mrs. Oliver been to see you? Nobody's been
03:06to see me, except the foreign fellow. The Superintendent Wheeler? Well, yes, him, of
03:12course. But he doesn't seem to be trying very hard, does he? It's as if he knew who did it already.
03:18How could he know that? I have no idea. It's not very nice, is it? No, it's not. You're used to it?
03:37Hardly. I don't like it at all.
03:44Miss Dawes. Ah, Rhoda. How nice to see you. Sit yourself down. I hope I'm not interrupting.
04:05Well, I am working, as you see. Only that dreadful vegetarian fin of mine. Oh, Sven
04:12Harsen. Is it a Sven Harsen book? If I ever finish it. Sven's an aghastly model. He did
04:19some very clever deduction with a dish of French beans, and now he's just discovered
04:24poison in the sage and onion stuffing of a Michaelmas goose. Don't bother. French beans
04:30are over by Michaelmas. They might be tinned. Well, yeah. They might. Bother. I hate horticulture.
04:39Oh, Mrs. Oliver, it must be marvellous to write. I mean, to sit down and write a whole
04:44book. How wonderful. Fortunately, it's not just the writing. One has to think as well.
04:50The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of the serial rights. I never imagined
04:53you did your own typing. I thought you'd have a secretary. I did have a secretary, and she
04:58was so competent it used to depress me, so she had to go. What can I do for you? I came
05:08up to town with Anne, Miss Meredith. She's seeing a solicitor with that ruffian, Despart.
05:14Oh. She's accepted help from him, then. You've got it all wrong, Mrs. Oliver. That's why
05:19I came up to see you. I know Anne seemed ungracious, but it wasn't you. It was something you said.
05:25Why? Why? What did I say? You said something about an accident. And poison. Well, you see,
05:33Anne had a miserable experience once. She was living in a house where a woman took some
05:38poison. Silver polish, I think it was. By mistaking it for something else. And she died.
05:55Servants? No, no, they heard nothing. But somebody has been right through these rooms. It would take some
06:03strength to bash in that window. I'd say it was a man. But none of the jewellery or the antiques
06:09has been nicked. Alors, for what is he searching? Do not know. You think it is related to the
06:15murder? I really couldn't say, Poirot. It might have been some bog-standard burglar who knew the
06:20place was unoccupied. C'est très mystérieux. Oh, got the results back from the lab. Shaitana was
06:29given a sleeping draught. Not strong enough to kill him. But strong enough to put him into the
06:34deep sleep? Yes. And the only prints on the glass were his own. Well, and yours, sir. Well, I took the
06:42glass out of his hand when we found him, didn't I? So, so what we need to do now is find out who
06:47drugged him. That'll lead us to the murderer. No. Pardon, but no, it is much more complex. This crime, it
06:55was committed on, well, the spur of the moment, Nespa. But now it looks as though it was planned.
07:01Why? How can you plan a crime of impulse? And what was his intention in inviting these people to his
07:07house? He was strange, this Shaitana. Well, he was a Dago with Dago habits, beyond the ken of an
07:14Englishman. Seems to have spent half his life fannying around Egypt. With Dago. Madame Loima, she
07:22holidays in Egypt. Madame Craddock, she dies in Egypt. And Shaitana, always he is there in Egypt.
07:28Perhaps he was Egyptian. No, he was Syrian. Syrian? Yes. How do you know this? It's in the files. So
07:44did you get anything on Despard, Colonel? Clean as a whistle. Fine shot. Cool head. Strict
07:52disciplinarian. Liked and trusted by the natives everywhere. Cook says dinner will be ready
07:58shortly. I hope nobody minds garlic. Ah. Don't take this out of context, but Despard led a trip
08:09into the South American interior. Accompanying a professor, Laxmore. Oh yes, he writes about it in
08:17his book. It's very powerful prose. Does he write that the professor died of a fever and was buried
08:23somewhere up the Amazon? Yes, he glances over it. Hmm. Well, there's a rumor going about that the old
08:31boy was shot by Despard in the back. I lay odds against it being true. The man I interviewed is an
08:39officer to the core. Incapable of murder, you mean? Incapable of what I would call murder. Yes. But
08:48not incapable of killing a man for what might seem to him good reasons. If so, they would be good
08:54reasons. He told to me that he thought Chetana was a louse. All right, Chetana may have come
09:02across something about Laxmore's death, but John Despard is not a murderer. Oh, I called in on
09:17Mrs. Lorimer. Of course, she has a rock-solid alibi for the break-in. As to her character,
09:22I really have no idea. She has a power of concentration that is remarkable, and in
09:30consequence is almost blind to her surroundings. Dr. Roberts, on the other hand, is an observer
09:35who is most keen, and Despard, well, he sees only what harmonizes with the bent of his own mind. In
09:41this case, the Persian rugs. I shall question also Mademoiselle Meredith, and soon I shall discover
09:49who or who is not capable of murder. What if they're all leading you up the garden path? No,
09:54it is not possible to take Hercule Poirot along the path, whether they try to hinder me or to
09:58help me. They necessarily reveal their type of mind. Right. I'm going to get back to the
10:07white and kids. I've got something on Anne Meredith. Well, we already know she was a governess on the
10:12Isle of Wight, and then she went to a Mrs. Dearing. In between those two, she had another appointment.
10:16Did she, by God? Anne Meredith was in the house where a woman accidentally took poison and died.
10:24Sorry, how do you know this? The Rhoda girl came to see me and blurted the whole thing out. It was
10:30three years ago in Devonshire. Miss Meredith only stayed a couple of months. She's never
10:37mentioned it, has she? Excellent, madame. You have done better than any of us. Our prime suspect has
10:46to be Roberts. Despard was drinking at his club at the time of the break-in at Chez Tanner's. Meredith
10:51could never have smashed that window, whereas the debonair Dr. Roberts has no alibi at all.
10:56Jim, we have absolutely no proof he killed anyone. You just can't accuse the man because you don't
11:03like his manner.
11:05There is a madame Laxmore, n'est-ce pas? How did you find out? My friend, madame
11:35Oliver, she pointed out that your editor had made a tiny error. In chapter four you wrote,
11:41the Laxmores were researching tropical plants. Laxmores, plural. Two of them. Then later there
11:52is only one. Did you shoot him? Yes. Were you in love with his wife? Old Laxmore claimed he was
12:15researching roots and mosses for medical purposes. Turns out he was actually looking for psychotropic
12:22drugs. Found quite a few, I think. Idiot began to experiment on himself. What has happened to him?
12:29He went berserk. Laxmore!
12:52There were no other Europeans for miles. We thought, Lily and I, we ought to say he died of
13:02a fever. Try and avoid the scandal. Poor girl would have been ruined if the truth had come out. Matter
13:08of fact, so would I. So I shut the lid on my finer feelings and buried him there and came home. I
13:17didn't think anyone would ever find out. But she had found out? Yes. Brute met up with Lily. May I
13:26take your picture? You look so romantic looking out across the Nile. God, I feel like a hero.
13:33The love, Major. L'amour. So often it is the same. It's Mr. Poirot, Doctor. Sorry, Poirot, I can't stop. I have only one small question.
13:50Fire away. Glad to help if I can. Did you know that Monsieur Chertana, he had been drugged? Drugged? I
13:56thought he was knifed. But he had been drugged as well. Well, how could I know that? Do you think I
14:01drugged him first and then stabbed him? Is that it? It's clever. But it is possible, is it not? You are a
14:06doctor. My dear sir, you have a fertile imagination. I'm sorry, I must dash. You go perhaps on your rounds to visit the
14:12patients. Not tonight. Bridge tournament. Miss Burgess is at your disposal. Cheerio. Bonsoir. Is there anything else I can help you with?
14:20Wait. Mademoiselle, I have a question that is most delicate. Please do not be offended. All right. The
14:29doctor, he's something of the lady's man, is he not? Yes, he's a dog. I keep waiting for him to try it on, and he doesn't.
14:40Damage. I tried to kiss him under the mistletoe last Christmas, but he just pulled a face. I think he's drunk, to be honest.
14:47Mademoiselle, could you tell me more about Madame Cradoc? Mrs. Cradoc? Well, she died in Egypt, did she not?
14:56You're very suspicious. I assure you, the doctor can't be blamed. He was here in Harley Street then. He never set foot in Egypt. He doesn't like the food.
15:07But Madame Cradoc, did she need many inoculations in order to travel? Well, of course. You wouldn't want to catch anything Egyptian, would you?
15:13Mademoiselle, the doctor, does he have a regular bridge partner? Oh, yes. They're devoted to the game, those two. They
15:25practice for hours with the door locked. Have you redecorated? No, Madame, I have moved. Of course. How silly of me not to remember.
15:45What was wrong with your last apartment? Walls not straight enough? You hit the nail right on the head. Oh, I look dreadful.
15:54No, no, no, not at all. So you think Roberts killed Mrs. Cradoc? How? Je ne sais pas. Why, if he's such a skirt chaser? Je ne sais pas.
16:04And Despard killed a man? Oui, d'accord. But he had no choice. Je ne sais pas. I thought you were supposed to be good at this.
16:16Chez Attane, he must hold the clue. Yes, but he's dead. Oui.
16:46Et bien, oui, plez.
17:16May I help you? I am Hercule Poirot, and you are Serge Mureau? At your service. Do you wish to commission a portrait? Merci, non, non, non.
17:30Artistic work, is it? No, I seek the person who develops the photographic plates for Monsieur Chez Attane. Well, you've found him. It is I, Serge Mureau, trying to pay for my vices.
17:41All right, Sheriff. He did say his family would be along for them one day. Didn't say he'd be quite so handsome.
18:03Miltonner.
18:14These are a very nice line, sir. Oui, but I must have the French ones.
18:25They come direct from Paris. With the duty, they are very expensive.
18:33They're very nice, but, you know, I had in my mind something of a texture a little finer.
18:47These are a hundred gauge. Extra fine.
18:55Like bleeding cobwebs, they are.
19:05They are 35 shillings a pair, sir.
19:10Thirty-five.
19:13Then I will have, let me see.
19:16Nineteen pair.
19:18Someone's a lucky girl then, ain't she?
19:24I have asked you here, mademoiselle, because I need your help.
19:28I wonder if you could cast your mind back to that evening in the drawing room of Monsieur Chez Attane.
19:33Don't worry, darling.
19:34No, no, no, no. Don't worry. No, not at all.
19:37It's just that I would like you to try to remember what you can from the room.
19:40For example, the tables, the chairs, the curtains, the fire irons.
19:45What can you describe?
19:47I see.
19:50Well, not very much.
19:54I don't know what the wallpaper was like.
19:58There were rugs on the floor.
20:00There was a piano.
20:02But you must remember, for example, an object or a piece of the bric-a-brac?
20:08There was a case of Egyptian jewellery over by the window.
20:13Now, was not that at the opposite end of the room from the table on which lay the little dagger?
20:19I never heard which table that was on.
20:24Egyptian jewellery, you say?
20:26Yes, it was lovely.
20:28Blues and reds. And emeralds.
20:31One or two lovely scarabs.
20:33Merci, mademoiselle.
20:35Now, may I ask you a favour that is personal?
20:39Well, as you know, Christmas, it is coming on, and...
20:42Well, I like very much to send my parcels à l'avance,
20:45and I must buy presents for my many nieces, grandnieces,
20:48and alas, my taste, it is rather old-fashioned.
20:52What do you want her to do?
20:56Well...
20:59Do you think the six stockings are a present most welcome?
21:03Yes.
21:05Well, more than that, then, I ask my favour.
21:08I have obtained 15 or 16 pairs.
21:12Oui.
21:13And I would like very much for you to go through them
21:16and to set aside half a dozen pairs which seem to you the most desirable.
21:20Certainly.
21:21Merci bien. Voilà.
21:23Also, if you would be kind enough...
21:26Well, to choose what? Six pairs?
21:29Merci beaucoup.
21:31Mademoiselle Dawes, I have something I would like to show you.
21:35What?
21:36It is a knife with which seven people were stabbed
21:39on a ferry pulling out of Istanbul.
21:41How horrible!
21:42You would like to see it?
21:43Yes, please.
21:45Anne Meredith is a nice girl, so it can't be her.
21:48And I never thought Roberts did it.
21:50Despard's much more plausible.
21:52So it's either Despard or Mrs Lorimer.
21:55Mrs Organized, I should say.
21:58Perhaps this is true. And yet...
22:01Superintendent Wheeler.
22:03Ah, Mrs Oliver. I hope you don't mind.
22:06I was told that Monsieur Poirot was here.
22:08Superintendent, you're welcome.
22:10Well, um...
22:12I've been down to Devonshire.
22:14I've spoken to the local police.
22:16And you were right.
22:18Anne Meredith worked for a Mrs Benson
22:20at a house called Crossways near Dawlish.
22:23Now, Mrs Benson was Rhoda Dawes' aunt.
22:27Every night she'd take a set up of figs.
22:29But there was some silver polish in a bottle which Anne Meredith broke.
22:37I'm sorry, Mrs Benson.
22:39Look, there's still some left.
22:43I think there's an empty bottle in the cupboard.
22:48Now, the police believe it was an accident.
22:50Even the old lady herself believed it was an accident.
22:53But somebody put that bottle into the bathroom
22:56and the housemaid swears it wasn't her.
22:59So I'm afraid I believe that Anne Meredith
23:01deliberately murdered her employer.
23:05What I do not know is why.
23:08Because she is a thief.
23:11What?
23:12Oui, bien sûr.
23:16This afternoon, I made a little experiment.
23:21I invited Anne Meredith to my apartment
23:23and asked her the usual questions about what she can remember
23:25from the room she had done.
23:28She's suspicious, son.
23:30Very suspicious.
23:33To the cunning dog, he does one of his best tricks, son.
23:36He lays the little trap.
23:38She mentions the case of jewellery.
23:40And I say, ah, was not that at the opposite end of the room
23:42from the table on which lay the little dagger?
23:45Mademoiselle, she does not fall into the trap.
23:47But then she begins to make the mistake to relax a little.
23:50She thinks she has outfoxed Hercule Poirot, but no.
23:53The real trap, it has not yet been sprung.
23:58You bought 19 pairs?
24:00Oui, and now there are 17.
24:02What a risk she took.
24:04Non, pas du tout.
24:06But what does she think I suspect her?
24:07It is murder.
24:08Hercule Poirot is not searching for the thief.
24:11The real risk in, what, stealing a few stockings?
24:14She has stolen all her life.
24:17But one time she is caught.
24:24By her employer, Madame Benson.
24:26So, Mrs. Benson has to die.
24:31It's a credible plot.
24:35But what about Shaytana?
24:37Did Anne Meredith kill Shaytana?
24:39No, no, no. It's not the same style.
24:42Swabbing bottles in a bathroom is one thing.
24:45Plunging a knife into someone's chest and ramming it home like a tent peg is quite another.
24:49See you? You commence to think like a detective.
24:53Do I?
24:55Oui, bien sûr.
24:56But the question still remains.
24:59Who had the motive to kill Shaytana?
25:01One of them? All of them?
25:03Well, whoever burgled his house could probably tell us.
25:09Je comprends bien.
25:30Despard's story holds up.
25:33Old Laxman was known to be over fond of the local hutu.
25:37Major, he is telling the truth.
25:40I dare say.
25:42But we can't know for certain.
25:45There's something else for him.
25:48It's just that I don't really know how to put it.
25:51Old chap, it's rather troubling.
25:55It's just that I believe we've left a suspect off the list.
25:58Who?
25:59Superintendent Wheeler.
26:02He could have knifed Shaytana when he went to wake him.
26:05He's got to be going, Shaytana.
26:07He knew he was drugged, so he wouldn't have cried out.
26:10Mr Shaytana?
26:19Damned if he hasn't fallen asleep.
26:26And Wheeler's prints were on the glass.
26:28Now, he says from after the killing, but perhaps from before.
26:32Already I have had this idea.
26:34With the superintendent Wheeler, he is my friend.
26:37But if he did kill Shaytana...
26:41I know why.
26:44I realized from the beginning...
26:47that of the four people in the room of Shaytana that night...
26:51the person with the best brains...
26:54the head that was the coolest and the most logical...
26:57it was you, madame.
27:00And if I was to put money on one of those four people getting away with murder...
27:03I should place my bet on you.
27:10So that is what you think of me?
27:13That I'm the kind of woman to commit an ideal murder?
27:21Well, I am.
27:24I confess.
27:29It was me.
27:31I killed him, monsieur Poirot.
27:34No, madame.
27:38Yes.
27:41Yes, that is why I telephoned.
27:43That is what I wanted to say.
27:46So you killed Shaytana.
27:49Why?
27:51Because he found out something about you?
27:53Something that happened a long time ago?
27:56Was that another death, madame?
27:59Yes.
28:02You could not know the weariness.
28:06The loneliness.
28:10No one could know what it means to...
28:15unless they have been alone, as I have...
28:18with the knowledge of what one has done.
28:20How did you kill Shaytana?
28:24I noticed the dagger before going into dinner.
28:29Then we sat down to play.
28:34I was the dummy. I strolled over to the fireplace.
28:44That was a delicious meal, monsieur Shaytana.
28:48I do enjoy venison enormously.
29:02Why do you tell to me this now?
29:07Because Anne Meredith came to me.
29:11And she is your daughter, I think.
29:14By your first husband, monsieur Herbert Meredith.
29:19A marriage certificate.
29:21It is not so hard to find.
29:23I can't bear the thought that I ruined her life.
29:25I can't bear it.
29:28How have you ruined her life?
29:32Why, by stabbing to death, monsieur Shaytana, of course.
29:39Did you drug him first?
29:41No, I stabbed him, as I've just told you.
29:45Madame Noramon, please do forgive me.
29:47But are you absolutely positive...
29:50that you did not plan this murder beforehand?
29:52That you did not place the sleeping potion into his drink?
29:54No, I simply picked up the dagger and I stabbed him.
29:57Then you are lying to me.
29:59You must be lying.
30:01Really, monsieur Poirot, you forget yourself.
30:03The question is, can Hercule Poirot possibly be wrong?
30:05No one can always be right.
30:07But I am. Always I am right.
30:09It is so invariable, it startles me.
30:11And now it looks very much as though I may be wrong.
30:13And that upsets me.
30:15And I should not be upset because I am right.
30:17I must be right because I am never wrong.
30:19Look, I killed Shaytana.
30:21Madame, I am willing to believe that you killed Shaytana.
30:23But I am not willing to believe that you killed him...
30:25in the way that you said that you did.
30:27Either the murder of Shaytana, it was planned beforehand...
30:30or you did not kill him at...
30:34I pounce upon it now.
30:37No, madame.
30:39No, you did not kill Shaytana.
30:41You meet your daughter. She is scared.
30:43And so you decide to sacrifice yourself...
30:46in order to protect her.
30:51Why?
30:59I am not an innocent woman.
31:04Thirteen years ago I killed my husband.
31:06The father of Anne?
31:08Yes.
31:09How did you kill him?
31:14I pushed him down the stairs.
31:20So that you could marry?
31:22Geoffrey Lorimer, yes.
31:24And he?
31:26He died within a year.
31:28A bad heart.
31:30For nothing, eh?
31:33Poetic justice, yes.
31:37So you hang for the murder of Shaytana...
31:39and your daughter Anne, she walks free.
31:41There is one question that still puzzles me.
31:44How can you be absolutely certain...
31:46that it was your daughter Anne who killed Shaytana?
31:48Because I saw her.
31:51It was late in the game.
31:53Anne was dummy.
31:58I looked over to the fireplace.
32:06And I saw her push the knife in.
32:16It was Anne.
32:20So, what does the Major say?
32:23He's asked me out to dinner.
32:25Oh, has he?
32:28I wish you would tell him...
32:29what happened at my Aunt Benson's, Annie.
32:32I feel sure it would be better to mention it...
32:34if something does come out.
32:36It might look rather bad.
32:39Rhoda.
32:42It was an accident.
32:45No, it wasn't.
32:47Rhoda.
32:49I want to get married.
32:51I want to go off with him and live somewhere...
32:54savage.
32:56I'm sorry, but that's what I want.
32:58If you do that...
33:00I shall be forced to tell the police what I know.
33:02You've been telling on me ever since we were at school.
33:05Well, I've had enough of it.
33:07I don't want you to go off with Desmond, Annie.
33:16Why are we arguing?
33:19We're such silly girls.
33:23It's such a beautiful day.
33:27Let's go out on the river and be friends.
33:32Let's go.
33:53Desmond's a brute.
33:56Great big neck.
33:59Honestly, Anne, how could you?
34:10I'm chilly. Could you pass my sweater?
34:12Come on.
34:27Rhoda!
34:33There, there!
34:35Rhoda!
34:43No!
34:45Help!
34:47Get back!
34:50Help!
35:08Quick!
35:10Come on.
35:20Come on.
35:22Come on.
35:26All right, Mama, is that it?
35:28There we are.
35:40Come on.
35:56Dad, weeds everywhere.
35:58I can't see a thing.
36:05Why did she do that?
36:11Dad.
36:18Here we are, my dear.
36:25She tried to kill me.
36:27My best friend.
36:29But she has killed before, mademoiselle.
36:31No, she hasn't.
36:32Mais oui.
36:34She killed Madame Benson, her aunt.
36:36No.
36:38That was me.
36:41I didn't mean to, but I did.
36:44No.
36:46She has allowed you to think it was your fault.
36:48But the truth is,
36:50she did not want you to be sent to prison for theft.
36:56We've always been best friends.
36:58But you were her slave.
37:00And so to keep you her slave,
37:02she allowed you to think that you were guilty.
37:05She also reminded you, mademoiselle,
37:08of another murder about which you told her.
37:10What do you mean?
37:12Your mother.
37:14My mother?
37:16Madame Lorimer.
37:18It was easy to discover
37:20that your mother married a Monsieur Herbert Meredith.
37:24Yes, my father was
37:26Herbert Meredith.
37:30She killed him.
37:34I watched it happen.
37:38And you could not leave?
37:40In that house.
37:42No, I could not.
37:44I left.
37:46I had nothing.
37:48I didn't see her again
37:50until that dreadful night at Chetaner's.
37:52Well done, Poirot.
37:54We've finally found out who did it.
37:58I think you know we have not, Superintendent.
38:04And it was not Anne Meredith.
38:12I don't know.
38:14I don't know.
38:16I don't know.
38:18I don't know.
38:20I don't know.
38:22She did not push in the knife.
38:24This had already been done.
38:28But she sees her mother watching her,
38:30and her mother thinks that she has pushed in the knife.
38:32And Anne Meredith,
38:34she is frightened to death.
38:36Well, then, who did do it, Poirot?
38:38Perhaps it was the person
38:40who broke into the house of Chetaner.
38:42The person who was searching for something.
38:46You?
38:48What was I searching for?
38:50Photographs.
38:52Now, look here, Poirot.
38:54I didn't kill him.
38:56I swear it.
38:58You have the motive.
39:00You have the opportunity.
39:02But do you have the character?
39:08This I do not know.
39:12I have asked you all here
39:14to help me
39:16to conclude the game.
39:20See, everyone tells to me
39:22that Monsieur Chetaner,
39:24he was asleep.
39:26But then I ask myself,
39:28why should a man sleep
39:30at his own party?
39:32And then, of course, we learn
39:34that he was drugged.
39:36But who has drugged him?
39:38The answer?
39:40Person.
39:42No one, because he has drugged himself.
39:46Which is why there were only his fingerprints,
39:48apart from those, of course,
39:50of the superintendent, on his glass.
39:52That's a bit far-fetched,
39:54Poirot.
39:56Ah, but I know that he has
39:58drugged himself.
40:00He told me so.
40:02It is as close as one gets to heaven.
40:04A dive into the infinite.
40:06The ecstatic moment of oblivion.
40:08Chetaner creates the crime.
40:10And then he helped me
40:12to solve it.
40:14He has drugged himself because
40:16he wanted to be killed.
40:18That was the game.
40:20To die,
40:22and to make fools of the police.
40:26I ask of everyone what they can remember
40:28from his room, because this gives me
40:30the key to the character.
40:32With this key, I unlock the door.
40:34I open it. I enter in.
40:36And what do I discover?
40:38I discover that the murderer
40:40of Monsieur Chetaner, it was not
40:42Chetaner.
40:44No.
40:46It was not Major D'Espard.
40:48No.
40:52And it was not Mademoiselle Méridith.
40:54No.
41:04And it was not you, superintendent.
41:08It was you, Dr. Roberts.
41:10You killed him.
41:14Are you mad, Poirot?
41:16No, it was you, and only you,
41:18who could possibly have killed him.
41:20For the reasons of psychology.
41:24You made the call of the Grand Slam.
41:26And the beat of the Grand Slam,
41:28it is most exciting, n'est-ce pas?
41:30To take all the tricks on the table.
41:32So now the players,
41:34they play with an attention which is rapt.
41:36But who is dummy?
41:38And I soon discovered
41:40it was, of course, you, Dr. Roberts.
41:42And for a man who's usually
41:44so observant, you could remember strangely
41:46little of your game, suggesting that your mind,
41:48it was on something else.
41:50But, of course, this would not be an easy
41:52matter to prove, nor would it be easy to prove
41:54that you also killed Madame Craddock.
41:58I know a good psychiatrist.
42:00Shall I book you in?
42:04You killed Madame Craddock
42:06because she had discovered
42:08that you were in a relationship with her husband
42:10that was sexual.
42:12You still are.
42:14He visits with you two or three times a week.
42:16Because he is your regular
42:18bridge partner.
42:20Oh, they're devoted to the game, those two.
42:22They practice for hours with the door locked.
42:24Mr. Craddock says you concentrate better
42:26if you're not disturbed.
42:28Madame Craddock, she found out.
42:30And she threatened to expose you.
42:32Nurse Ravitch, anybody could tell you I'm a lady's man.
42:35You're a lady's man.
42:39Surely the lady's man would find to be irresistible
42:41Mademoiselle Burgess.
42:43But you never even
42:45tried your luck with her.
42:48Not even under the mistletoe.
42:50She's a secretary, Poirot.
42:52Non, elle est magnifique.
42:55Yet you've run away from her.
42:58All the time you make it up to me
43:00you make it up to yourself.
43:03And when she thought she heard a lover's quarrel
43:05between you and Madame Craddock,
43:06what she in fact heard was a row
43:08following her discovery
43:10that you had seduced her husband.
43:12Get your hands off me!
43:14You filthy little pervert!
43:18And she threatened to expose you.
43:20To have you struck off from the medical register.
43:23And so you killed her.
43:25And I know how.
43:27Really? How?
43:29With her inoculation for Egypt.
43:32While you were preparing her injection
43:34she said something to you that you do not want to hear.
43:37I know just what you've been up to.
43:39Excuse me, Doctor.
43:41That's all right, Miss Burgess.
43:42You are interrupted.
43:44And then thinking and acting so quickly
43:49you contaminate the needle with bacteria.
43:51Afraid this hurts a bit, Dottie?
43:53It could never hurt as much as you've hurt me.
43:55The poisoning of her blood which results
43:57takes weeks to develop
43:58and in the end she dies of organ failure.
44:01But of course the conditions in Egypt are to be blamed.
44:05But before she died
44:07she met Monsieur Chetana.
44:09She wanted revenge.
44:12And Monsieur Chetana, as you know,
44:15takes photographs.
44:24Photographs, Doctor Roberts.
44:34John Roberts, I'm arresting you for the murder
44:36All right.
44:37of Mr. Chetana.
44:38All right.
44:41I throw in my hand.
44:45Look after her, Major.
44:46Will do.
44:47Mother!
45:18But why did Chetana drug himself?
45:22He is tired of life.
45:23He has a
45:26madness in his soul.
45:30He is searching for a thrill that would be for him
45:33the ultimate.
45:37And in order to achieve this
45:38he invites four people to his house
45:40whom he believes have killed
45:42and then he goads them.
45:45There's always an accident.
45:47A shooting accident, for example.
45:49Or a domestic accident.
45:52One of the little tragedies
45:54never gets reported.
45:57And then he takes the sleeping draught so that
46:00when it happens
46:02he will feel no pain.
46:05And it does happen.
46:15And there's an extra twist.
46:17He tries to throw the blame on one of us.
46:21He makes us to believe
46:23that a crime that is opportunistic
46:27is made to look as though it was planned most carefully
46:29and we start...
46:30Oh, brother.
46:31Even Hercule Poirot, he starts to believe it.
46:35And then we start to believe it.
46:37And then we start to believe it.
46:39And then we start to believe it.
46:41Brother, even Hercule Poirot, he starts to believe it.
46:44When all the time
46:46the plan was to allow
46:48a crime that was opportunistic to happen.
46:53There's a plot
46:55that is distinctly odd.
46:57The plot, madame, they're all the same.
46:58It is only the psychology that is different.
47:00Well, well done, Poirot.
47:03Well done.
47:04Merci.
47:07Superintendent.
47:10Sven would have solved it rather differently.
47:12That's for sure.
47:14Au revoir.
47:15Au revoir, madame.
47:19Superintendent.
47:21Good job you found those photographs of him, Poirot.
47:24Oui.
47:27Superintendent, those photographs
47:30are not of Dr. Roberts.
47:31Non.
47:34They are of you.
47:39Oh, dear.
47:42Are they?
47:45Oui.
47:47Well, of course, if you wish to behave this way,
47:50it is up to you, but
47:52for myself, I do not think it suits you very well.
47:56But please, in future,
47:57do not let men like Che and Tana take the pictures.
48:01No.
48:02No, it was stupid of me.
48:04I thought I could get them back,
48:06but he stashed them.
48:07And I found them.
48:09And I gave them to you as a gift.
48:21I knew it was not you who killed him, Superintendent.
48:25The murder of Monsieur Che and Tana,
48:27it was committed on impulse, hein?
48:29It was an inspiration, a flash, of genius.
48:34If you had killed him, you would have planned it,
48:36and it would have been dull.
48:40Not artistic, n'est-ce pas?
48:54So, we have played.
48:58And Hercule Poirot,
49:02he has won.
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