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Mrs. Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when the girl playing murder victim winds up truly murdered. Starring: David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Chris Gordon, Zoë Wanamaker.
Mrs. Oliver is asked to devise a murder hunt for a Devon fête, but her sense of foreboding summons Poirot to the scene. Her fears are realized when the girl playing murder victim winds up truly murdered. Starring: David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Chris Gordon, Zoë Wanamaker.
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00:00You
00:30Welcome Sir George, Lady Stubbs.
00:57Good evening Sir George.
01:04Good evening.
01:05I'm so thankful you're here at last.
01:08A shocking night.
01:09She needs to get straight to bed or she'll catch a chill.
01:11Come along my dear.
01:39Come at once.
02:01Nasshaus, Devon.
02:03Urgent.
02:04Ariadne Oliver.
02:10You been here before Sir?
02:11Non.
02:12Take the scenic route along the river shall I?
02:14Non, merci.
02:26Afternoon ladies.
02:29You don't mind do you Sir?
02:30Foreigners see.
02:31Can't read a map.
02:32Bonjourno.
02:33Mamma si.
02:35It is most kind, please.
02:36Grazie.
02:37Marja, to the U-Fastle.
02:38Oh, her is not speak English.
02:39We meet first time this morning on the platform at Exeter.
02:40And now we are big friends, we explore Devon together.
03:05I could show you a few beauty spots if you like.
03:17The hostel is that way.
03:18Don't cross Sir George's land though, if you don't like it.
03:21Grazie mille.
03:24Thank you Stan.
03:29Could you please, may we hurry?
03:58Welcome to Nass, monsieur.
04:04I believe Mrs. Oliver to be down by the battery Sir, that way.
05:44There are some very strange people here.
05:47Very strange indeed.
05:50They are holding a fate tomorrow and they thought they'd have a treasure hunt.
05:53And they thought, no, that's been done to death.
05:55So they thought they'd have a murder hunt instead.
05:58And they offered me a tidy sum to come and dream it up.
06:02Well, anything's better than writing.
06:04So I've been busily inventing motives and suspects and victims and so forth.
06:10And it costs a bob to enter and all you get for that is the first clue.
06:13Good fun.
06:14Madame, Poirot, he has arrived to Devon.
06:17Mais pourquoi?
06:18Because there's something amiss.
06:20I think someone's going to die.
06:23If there were to be a real murder tomorrow instead of a fake one,
06:27I shouldn't be in the least surprised.
06:34Whose idea was it, this murder hunt?
06:36The Warburton's, I think.
06:38The owners of the property?
06:39No, no, that's Sir George Stubbs.
06:42Awfully rich and awfully common.
06:44Bought the place a year or so ago, along with his wife,
06:48who's outrageously beautiful, but as dumb as a fish.
06:59The corpse will be in here.
07:02Sally Legg was going to do it,
07:03but now they want her to dress up in a turban and tell fortunes.
07:07So it's a girl guide called Marlene Tucker.
07:11Hideous child.
07:13Just has to sit here and read comics.
07:15I've written a clue on one of them
07:17and flopped down when she hears someone coming with this around her neck.
07:22Hello, I've brought lemonade.
07:24Oh, that is most kind, Miss Bruce.
07:27Good afternoon, sir.
07:28Good afternoon.
07:29Lady Stubbs must be rushed off her feet with all the preparations.
07:32Do thank her for the drinks.
07:34Lady Stubbs has one of her headaches.
07:36She's not yet up.
07:41I've planned every detail and it all dovetails nicely.
07:45But things keep changing.
07:48The fortune telling is a good example.
07:50I feel I'm being jockeyed along.
07:53Jockeyed along?
07:54Manipulated.
07:55So someone is making the suggestion?
07:58Writers can't stand suggestions.
08:00If you suggest something, we'd do exactly the opposite.
08:03But I am being jockeyed along.
08:06And I can't figure out how.
08:09To tell the truth, I'm worried.
08:13Perhaps the big suggestion is Putin.
08:15To which you of course say no because it is preposterous.
08:18But then, an idea most trivial may be found to have been smuggled in.
08:23Yes, yes, something like that, yes.
08:26Who is making these alterations?
08:28Different people.
08:29It would be easier if it were just one, wouldn't it?
08:32And you have told to them that Hercule Poirot is coming?
08:35Yes, I said you'd be giving away the prizes for the murder hunt.
08:38Everyone's thrilled.
08:40Mrs. Oliver!
08:41Hang on, I'll walk up with you.
08:43All safe, sir?
08:47This is Michael Wayman, an architect.
08:51I'm meant to be designing a tennis pavilion.
08:53Do you know what he's asked for?
08:54A Chinese pagoda.
08:57Self-made men.
09:00Stinking with money but with no taste whatsoever.
09:04For instance, look at this.
09:06It's quite nice of its kind.
09:09Well, in keeping with the house.
09:11But these things are meant to be...
09:14What's the phrase?
09:16Situated on an eminence.
09:19And here's this poor little devil tucked away in the woods.
09:23Perhaps it wasn't anywhere else.
09:25What about the grassy bank by the house?
09:26It's perfect.
09:27A tree comes down in a gale.
09:29Right as the self-made twerp will put the folly there.
09:32Tidy up the place.
09:33Look, it's only on a yard of concrete, subsiding already.
09:38These people are extraordinary.
09:46That's Amy Folliard.
09:48Her people owned Nass originally.
09:51Then she lost both her sons and had to sell up.
09:55And yet she lives here still?
09:57Precisely.
09:59Odd or what?
10:00Is this the great Monsieur Poirot?
10:03Enchante, Madame Folliard.
10:05It is kind of you to help out with our prices.
10:09This clever lady has contrived a most intricate problem.
10:13I have been admiring the house.
10:15I thank you.
10:17It was built by my husband's great-grandfather.
10:20It was an Elizabethan manor before, but it burned down.
10:24It must be hard for you to have strangers living in residence now.
10:29So many things are hard, Monsieur.
10:32Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll see if they have your room ready.
10:38What do you think?
10:40Comment?
10:42It is only one instance since I have arrived.
10:44Well, I've been here three days,
10:46and every time someone says something,
10:48I get the strongest impression they're lying.
10:51My intuition tells me something is wrong.
10:53Allah.
10:55I'm well aware you think of me irrational.
10:58Madame, one calls things by different names.
11:01Ah?
11:02It may indeed be that you have seen something.
11:04It may indeed be that you have heard something.
11:07And it may be, if I may so put it,
11:11that you do not know what it is that you know.
11:14You are aware only of the result,
11:16and that, Madame, it is your intuition.
11:19Whatever it is, I feel certain someone is going to die.
11:26We must do something about it.
11:42BIRDS CHIRP
11:55Poirot, is it? Me?
11:58Welcome. Welcome, old man.
12:00Merci, Monsieur. Yes, George Stubbs.
12:02Ah, it's a pleasure to meet you.
12:04I'm delighted you could come.
12:06Yes, let me introduce you to some people.
12:08The fortune-telling over by the Magnolia
12:11or at the far end of the lawn by the Rhododendrons.
12:13What do you think? By the Magnolia?
12:15My tent can't go by the Magnolia. It will cause a bottleneck.
12:18Rubbish!
12:19Down at the end, please, Captain.
12:21What about the coconut shrine?
12:23Yes, not too near the house, Jim.
12:25I've just replaced the windows.
12:27THEY LAUGH
12:29Now, may I introduce the famous gent, Hercule Poirot.
12:34Yes, indeed, Monsieur Poirot.
12:36Captain and Mrs Warburton. Over.
12:38Captain. Delighted.
12:40Madame. Yes, and Alec and Sally Legg.
12:43And that's you.
12:45Madame. We'll find you a job later on.
12:47Watch out, Poirot. Sally can make a man do anything.
12:50THEY LAUGH
12:52So, come and meet the wife.
12:55Excuse me.
12:57This is Mr Poirot. He's our guest.
13:00Madame. Now, you chuck nicely,
13:02while I go and locate some coconuts.
13:05Over.
13:06Right.
13:08Do you mind if I sit down, Madame?
13:10So much walking.
13:13Merci.
13:17It's pretty, isn't it?
13:19It's an emerald.
13:21George gave it to me. He gives me lots of things.
13:25HUMMING
13:32Devonshire is a county most pleasant, that's pa.
13:35It is when it isn't raining, but there aren't any nightclubs.
13:38Ah, bon, you like the nightclub?
13:40Oh, yes.
13:41I love music and dancing and champagne
13:44and wearing my nicest clothes and all my jewels.
13:49It's best to be rich, isn't it?
13:51Perhaps if I was not rich, I should look like her.
13:54Imagine.
13:56Tea, my lady.
13:58Tea is stupid.
13:59Perhaps our guest would like some hattie.
14:02Shall I be mother?
14:04Is he going to be like Ascot tomorrow? I can wear a very big hat.
14:07Not quite like Ascot, dear.
14:10There's so much to do.
14:12You really should be helping out
14:14instead of staying in bed till after lunch.
14:16I've got a new dress.
14:18Come and see.
14:19Come and see.
14:20We're just having a cup of tea.
14:22Come with me. Come now.
14:23Oh, very well.
14:25Please excuse us.
14:32Beautiful creature, isn't she?
14:33Ah, oui.
14:34See that ring George bought her?
14:37Whether he's spotted she's away with the fairies,
14:40I couldn't say.
14:41But then he's hardly an intellectual himself, is he?
14:44Sir George is inside the Stocks and Shares, I believe.
14:47Yes.
14:48Not exactly a gentleman's game, what.
14:50But still, you are their friend.
14:52Good grief, no choice.
14:54Not with an election coming up.
14:56Jim, you've got to settle this.
14:59We agreed my tent should be at the far end by the road of dendrons.
15:02It's the only place.
15:03My wife doesn't think so.
15:05You're the Member of Parliament.
15:07Show her who's boss.
15:09You're out of your mind.
15:10All right, see what I can do.
15:13Have you seen Amy Folliard?
15:15I believe that Madame Folliard is inside with the Lady Stubbs.
15:19She seems to be more solicitous towards her.
15:21Ah, yes.
15:22Well, she was Hattie's guardian.
15:25Before I walked her up the aisle, of course.
15:28Her people were in sugar in the Caribbean.
15:31But there was a typhus epidemic
15:33and both her mother and her father lost their lives.
15:35Rotten bloody luck, actually.
15:37But Amy Folliard was a friend of the family
15:40and took young Hattie under the wing.
15:42Oh, that is commendable.
15:44She's a damn good egg, actually.
15:46Ah, Amanda, there you are.
15:48I want you to go and order some wild fencing straight away, please.
15:51I don't think you're allowed to pen people in the tea tent, sir.
15:54Not the tea tent, dear, no, no.
15:56Over there in the woods where they're coming through,
15:58they just keep wandering in.
15:59Who are?
16:00Trespassers.
16:01Foreigners.
16:02Cutting through, you see, Poirot, through to the ferry.
16:05Girls in little short trousers.
16:07Not me, the car.
16:08It's the trousers of the girls, sir.
16:10Exactly.
16:12I have a gentleman on the telephone with coconuts.
16:14Right, the coconuts, yeah.
16:16Right, so...
16:20Look at them all buzzing around.
16:23Busy, busy bees.
16:26The world's going to pot and they're holding a garden party.
16:33But that is an activity honoured by time, monsieur.
16:36The apathy of these people.
16:38They're all feeble-minded.
16:40Do you know what I'd like to see done in this country?
16:43I'd like to see every feeble-minded person put out.
16:48Don't let them breed.
16:50Finish them off, all the simpletons.
16:53How would you do that, monsieur?
16:55Oh, I'm a chemist.
16:57I could do it easily.
17:04Any theories?
17:06Everybody seems to me to be completely normal.
17:09What are you trying to be amusing?
17:11Perhaps that is not the right word.
17:13Lady Stubbs, it appears he's subnormal, Alec Legg abnormal.
17:17Oh, he's all right, he's just having a nervous breakdown.
17:20But everyone seems in a state of agitation,
17:22which I believe is characteristic of the preparations for a fate in England.
17:26Mrs Oliver, your corpse is here.
17:29Ah, hello, Marlene.
17:32Remember, a guide is honest, reliable and can be trusted.
17:37Can you come and have a look at her costume?
17:39I was going to be stabbed.
17:41Now she says I'm going to be strangled.
17:44That's not fair.
17:46This gentleman knows all about murder.
17:48Why don't you ask him?
17:51Seen a lot of killings, have you?
17:54One or two, mademoiselle.
17:56Any sex maniacs?
17:58I like sex maniacs.
18:00I like sex maniacs. I've read about them.
18:02I do not think you would like to meet one.
18:04If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on, dead-like,
18:10he's liable to be a sex maniac, isn't he?
18:13That would be an assumption most reasonable of me.
18:16That's what my granddad said.
18:18But he's daft, so no one believes him.
18:21Marlene, come and try your costume.
18:30That's it.
18:32Leave.
18:33What do you want from me?
18:34I have told you many times to leave.
18:37You have no right to do this.
18:39You have no right to do this.
18:40Everything I've taught you is nothing like this.
18:43You have no right to do this.
18:44You have no right to do this.
18:45You have no right to do this.
18:46You have no right to do this.
18:47You have no right to do this.
18:48You have no right to do this.
18:49You have no right to do this.
18:50You have no right to do this.
18:51You have no right to do this.
18:52You have no right to do this.
18:53You have no right to do this.
18:54You have no right to do this.
18:55You have no right to do this.
18:56You have no right to do this.
18:57You have no right to do this.
18:58You have no right to do this.
19:00You have no right to do this.
19:01You have no right to do this.
19:02You have no right to do this.
19:03You have no right to do this.
19:04Constantino.
19:05What have you done?
19:06What have I done?
19:07See what I have done?
19:12You permit, madame?
19:14Oh, no.
19:16No.
19:17I'm so sorry.
19:19Hattie dragged me off earlier.
19:21It was rude of her.
19:24Lady Stubbs has a little common on the capricious.
19:29Hattie is a dear, good child.
19:31Mm-hmm.
19:34I know her very well, you see.
19:37Because she was once your ward.
19:41My husband died in Flanders.
19:44My eldest son was killed on active service
19:46against the Pashtun.
19:48And to cap a sorry tale, my youngest son
19:53took up aviation and crashed, trying
19:57to break the record to Nairobi.
20:00That meant three lots of death duties.
20:04Well, Nass had to be sold.
20:09I was very unhappy, and I was glad of the distraction
20:13of having the young person to look after.
20:17For a time, he lived in Paris.
20:19My, we had fun.
20:22I became very fond of Hattie, all the more so
20:26when I realized that she was not terribly capable.
20:36Thank heaven there was no money to speak of,
20:38had she been an heiress.
20:39I don't think how vulnerable she might have been.
20:43Her father died bankrupt, and we felt ourselves fortunate
20:48when George Stubbs came along.
20:51It was most fortunate indeed.
20:55George Stubbs is a good man.
20:58Oh, I know he's a complete vulgarian,
21:00but he is fundamentally decent.
21:03I think that you have made the arrangement most prudent,
21:06madam.
21:07I am not like the English, romantic about these matters.
21:10Et voici, here you are, still at Nass' house.
21:14Sir George lets me live in the lodge,
21:18and I count myself very lucky.
21:20Indeed, you have found for yourself
21:22a haven most peaceful, madam.
21:25A haven from the storm, yes.
21:30The world is a wicked place, Monsieur Poirot.
21:34There are very wicked people in it.
21:55What do you want me to put on this poster?
21:58Madame Zulaika or Romany Lee, Gypsy Queen?
22:01No one likes gypsies around here.
22:03Better make it Madame Zulaika.
22:05There's a snake around her neck.
22:08What?
22:09A snake in the grass.
22:11I had a snake once, but it swallowed the rabbit.
22:14Had to chop it up.
22:16Quite good fun.
22:17Do you still paint, Michael, like you used to?
22:20Sold out, Sally.
22:2130 pieces of silver.
22:23Everyone has to earn a living.
22:25What, in Parliament, Jim?
22:26That's not really an honest living, now is it?
22:29What?
22:30Waste of time, Parliament.
22:31Don't be such a rotten old sulk.
22:33Why, Alec has a point.
22:35What do you think, Mrs. Oliver?
22:36Should all politicians be eliminated?
22:39I don't think so, Mr. Poirot.
22:40I think it's a good idea.
22:41I think it's a good idea.
22:42I think it's a good idea.
22:43I think it's a good idea.
22:44I think it's a good idea.
22:45I think it's a good idea.
22:46I think it's a good idea.
22:48Perhaps.
22:48Perhaps we should motivate the harder
22:50people to be eliminated.
22:52Eliminated?
22:54I don't know.
22:55They make ever such good suspects, as a rule.
22:58They certainly do.
23:00I mean, just look at my husband.
23:02He couldn't get more shifty if he tried.
23:05Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
23:07Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
23:08Excuse me.
23:09I'm going to bed.
23:10Patti.
23:11I feel strange.
23:13Darling, darling, we're at dinner.
23:16Oh, Lady Stubbs has gone early to bed.
23:25Malores, mon oui.
23:27She suffers perhaps from the mental confusion.
23:30Oh, no.
23:32She knows exactly what she's doing.
23:38What do you think?
23:39I think, madame, that I take the little walk.
23:45Monsieur, do you want the ferry, sir?
24:06Oh, no.
24:07No, merci.
24:08I stay at Nass.
24:09Oh.
24:10It is up at Nass you are?
24:15I work for the Folliats many a year.
24:17None of them left now, of course, except old mum up at the lodge.
24:21Met her, have he?
24:23Madame Folliat?
24:24Oui.
24:25Bad luck, hers had.
24:27Trouble with her husband, trouble with her sons.
24:31They were all right when they was boys, always down here crabbing.
24:34But when they grows up...
24:35Master Henry, he died for his country, fair dues, but Master James, he was wild.
24:45On a day as couldn't go straight by was back, said Master James.
24:50Airplanes, flying, now that's no way to die.
24:55No.
24:56No, indeed.
24:57Hello.
24:58What is your opinion of Sir George?
25:01Oh, pardon.
25:02Monsieur...
25:03John Myrdal.
25:04Monsieur Myrdal.
25:05Oh, no.
25:06No, merci.
25:07Gentleman be powerful rich.
25:08Wife's a fine lady from London.
25:10There.
25:11I remember the night they arrived.
25:12Worst gale we ever had.
25:13Big tree down in the woods, made a rare mess.
25:14Where the Folliat now stands.
25:15Ah, damn silly place for it, too.
25:16Never happened in Squire's day, London nonsense.
25:17It is sad, is it not, that the time for the Folliat family, it is finished?
25:18Always be Folliats at Nass.
25:19It's a pity.
25:20It's a pity.
25:21It's a pity.
25:22It's a pity.
25:23It's a pity.
25:24It's a pity.
25:25It's a pity.
25:26It's a pity.
25:27It's a pity.
25:28It's a pity.
25:29It's a pity.
25:30It's a pity.
25:31It's a pity.
25:32It's a pity.
25:33It's a pity.
25:34It's a pity.
25:39Monsieur?
25:40Mum shall be here by sheen.
25:43Good night, sir.
25:45Bonne nuit.
26:09Now, here are some new ideas for the pagoda.
26:37What do you think?
26:39See?
26:49Oh, no.
26:51What is it, darling?
26:53It's from my cousin Etienne. He's coming here.
26:55He's coming in his yacht.
26:57Oh.
26:58No.
26:59Well, may I see?
27:07Who is this Etienne de Souza?
27:09A distant cousin. He says he's coming here today.
27:12Well, it's a pity he's dropping by in the afternoon with a fake, but never mind.
27:15We shall make him welcome.
27:17No, we can't.
27:18We can.
27:19Oh, I need to lie down.
27:20I have a headache.
27:21Hattie, dear.
27:22Take some aspirin and then it will go away.
27:24Shall I bring you some?
27:25No.
27:26Sweetheart.
27:27Excuse me.
27:29Oh, Hattie, darling.
27:30I don't want to see Etienne. I don't like him. He's wicked.
27:33He does bad things.
27:37No, no, no.
27:41No, Rogers, put the urn on the left.
27:44Righto, ma'am.
27:45The left.
27:46On the left.
27:48Oh.
27:49Hello, Poirot.
27:51Bonjour, madame.
27:53What a beautiful day.
27:55Yes.
27:56And isn't it nice to have Lass lived in again?
28:00We were all so afraid it would become an hotel.
28:03Many houses have AA3 stars and what have you.
28:08Ghastly.
28:10I must say, George Stubbs has done wonders for the place.
28:15He's got good blood in him somewhere.
28:18Father a gent and mother a barmaid, that's my guess.
28:25I see she got her way with the fortune teller's tent.
28:34No, no, no, no.
28:36No, you're trespassing.
28:38You can't come through here, do you understand?
28:41The youth hostel is that way.
28:44This is private land.
28:46Hop it.
28:48This won't do.
28:52Ah, Poirot.
28:54Might I meet you in the study?
28:57What's that, Hattie?
29:00Well, I put a padlock on the gate.
29:02They come through the wood.
29:04They don't seem to understand a word I'm talking about.
29:06They just jabber on in Dutch or French or whatever.
29:10One of them was, I think, Italian.
29:12Well, precisely, yes. Foreigner.
29:18Ah, Poirot.
29:20I've got to go.
29:22Goodbye.
29:24Goodbye.
29:26Goodbye.
29:28Poirot, will you answer me a question
29:30with the benefit of all your experience?
29:32Most certainly, monsieur, I will try.
29:37Is Michael Weyman after my wife?
29:43Monsieur?
29:45Oh, she's behaving downwardly.
29:48All these headaches and this constant lying down.
29:50Every time I look at her,
29:52there's Michael bloody Weyman hovering nearby.
29:58I'm sorry, I'm just being pathetic, but...
30:06If you should see her getting up to anything,
30:09I mean, anything at all,
30:14you will let me know.
30:29You look ridiculous.
30:34Hurry up!
30:36Everybody this way. Come along.
30:38Gather round, please.
30:42Now I declare the garden fate open.
30:45Bravo!
30:49Mother, let us separate.
30:52We shall watch with the peel down.
30:55We shall watch with the peel down.
31:07Mr. and Mrs. Hopper, this is just like old times.
31:12Isn't it the greatest success?
31:14I've restocked with flora bundles.
31:16Just one small bomb would do it.
31:24Here, I love you.
31:28Here, sir, you look lovely.
31:30It's for charity, sir.
31:31Children's fancy dress.
31:33Hold up, please. Hold quiet.
31:36You've won. Well done.
31:38Congratulations, sir.
31:41Here's the first clue.
31:43It's a photograph.
31:45Work out what it is, and you'll get the second clue.
31:48Good luck.
31:55I see you're enjoying yourself.
31:56It is most horrible, is it not?
31:58Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new champion.
32:01Little girl, a petit cadeau pour toi, hein?
32:07Anything?
32:08No.
32:09As far as I can tell, they're all just enjoying themselves, which is a little galling.
32:13Oh, yes. Good to see you.
32:15Bonjour, mademoiselle. You come also to the fair?
32:17Oh, it is so fun.
32:19My friend comes later, and then we go by bus to Turkey.
32:23You remember my friend?
32:24Oui, I saw her this morning.
32:26Oh, yes, the man was rude.
32:28Now he is polite.
32:35Ah, mademoiselle Brousse.
32:37Someone's made a speedy recovery.
32:45Madame, that which you wear on your head, it is a creation most beautiful.
32:50Like something from the Royal Ascot, eh?
33:11You will make a long journey, possibly by train.
33:16I see, a luxurious train.
33:19And great riches will be yours at the end of your quest.
33:26Madame Oliver told me that originally you were to be the victim,
33:29but that you had been snatched from her by the occult.
33:33I wish I was the body.
33:35Oh, this is exhausting.
33:37Is it four o'clock yet?
33:39I want my tea.
33:47What do you think?
33:49Je crois que vous avez raison.
33:51There is something that is incongruous.
33:53Yes, and a murder hunt would be awfully convenient
33:56if you wanted to conceal a murder, wouldn't it?
33:58But a murder, madame, requires a victim.
34:00So who is this victim?
34:02This is what we must discover.
34:04I say, teen lady stud.
34:06She's meant to be judging the fancy dress.
34:08No.
34:09What's the woman playing at?
34:11I shall have to get someone else.
34:13Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
34:22Sally.
34:35Excuse me.
34:38Excuse me.
34:43Is this the house of Sir George Stubbs?
34:45Oui, d'accord.
34:47I am Etienne de Souza.
34:49Enchanté, monsieur.
34:51I am Hercule Poirot.
34:53De Souza, is it?
34:57George Stubbs.
34:58Good day to you.
34:59Yes, a jolly busy one, actually.
35:01You know, welcome to Nass and delighted, delighted to meet you.
35:06My cousin Hattie is here?
35:08Yes, yes. Yes, she is.
35:10You will dine with us this evening, I hope.
35:13Can we put you up?
35:15I will sleep on my yacht, the Esperance.
35:18However the devil is my wife.
35:20You hang on here and I'll be straight back.
35:25So it is some time since last you saw your cousin?
35:28I have not seen her since she was 14 years old.
35:32Then her parents sadly died and she was sent abroad.
35:36As a child she promised to have good looks.
35:39She is a woman most beautiful, monsieur.
35:42And that is her husband.
35:46Lady Stubbs. Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
35:48Have you seen my wife, Lady Stubbs?
35:50Has anyone seen Lady Stubbs?
35:54You've seen Lady Stubbs, have you? Big hat and the sunglasses.
35:58She seems to have completely disappeared.
36:03I feel certain someone is going to die.
36:07Lady Stubbs?
36:09I thought we asked you to go astray.
36:11The world is a wicked place, isn't it?
36:15Have you seen Lady Stubbs? Hattie?
36:17Have you seen Lady Stubbs?
36:19Lady Stubbs? You haven't seen her, have you?
36:22Lady Stubbs, she has disappeared.
36:24They look everywhere. She is gone.
36:26But where can she be?
36:28Anyone think of the boathouse?
36:31Oh.
36:38It's locked.
36:40To make sure nobody finds the body by accident.
36:43It's rather brilliant, don't you think?
36:46Marlene? It's Mrs Oliver. I'm coming in.
36:54Marlene, you can get up. It's only me.
36:58Marlene?
37:01Marlene?
37:12That which you have feared has happened, Mother.
37:16Elle est morte.
37:18You don't mean... You don't mean...
37:21Oh, Marlene.
37:28Oh!
37:33Marlene Tucker, local girl.
37:38Carotid with a length of rope.
37:41Doctor says she's still warm.
37:43Dead no more than an hour.
37:45So the killer isn't far away.
37:47I dare say.
37:49But who'd want to murder a 14-year-old child?
37:52Johnny goes with Kate.
37:54Georgie pinches hikers in the wood.
37:57Sir George Stubbs.
37:59I'll need a room, sir.
38:02And I want to question both yourself and Lady Stubbs, I'm afraid.
38:05Yes, of course, but my wife seems to have disappeared from view.
38:09We'll find her eventually, but I doubt she'll...
38:12She'll be much help.
38:14I feel awful.
38:17Put that in capital letters. Awful.
38:20Because, you see, it's my murder.
38:23I organised it.
38:25I don't usually drink, but Poirot gave me this for the shock.
38:31Did you say Poirot?
38:37I don't suppose you remember me, Monsieur Poirot?
38:43Most assuredly.
38:46SIGHS
38:50It is the young Sergeant Bland,
38:52whom I met by this now since 14, 15 years,
38:56in Gloucestershire.
38:59What a memory.
39:01I cannot for the life of me remember
39:03why I should ever have wanted the Yugoslavian wife
39:06of a biochemist to be the victim.
39:08And I wasn't expecting a man in a yacht.
39:10What man in a yacht?
39:12He sent a letter to Lady Stubbs and she was frightened.
39:15Frightened of what?
39:16Frightened of him.
39:18And now she's disappeared.
39:20Can you tell me anything about a man in a yacht?
39:25Oui, bien sûr. Etienne de Souza.
39:28The cousin of Lady Stubbs.
39:31Who was afraid of this Etienne de Souza? Do you know why?
39:35I heard her say he was a bad man.
39:38Do you think her fear was real?
39:40If it was not, she is an actress, very clever.
39:44You came ashore in a launch at Naskam Cay.
39:47Did you see a small wooden boathouse on your way?
39:51Yes, and had I known it belonged to Nass House,
39:54I should have come ashore there.
39:56But I did not.
39:58Did you see any signs of activity?
40:00In the boathouse? No.
40:03Originally, the part of the victim was to have been played by Sally Legg.
40:07But one evening, Sally told all our fortunes
40:10and she was thought to be strikingly good at it.
40:13Someone suggested one of the girl guides could be the corpse instead,
40:16so Sally became Madame Zulaika.
40:18Was Marlene Tucker happy to be the victim?
40:21Oh, she was thrilled.
40:23I noticed a plate and a glass.
40:26Yes, she had some jam tarts and a fruit drink.
40:29I took the tray down myself. Lady Stubbs asked me to.
40:32Right. What time, exactly?
40:35Oh, let's see. I'd say about quarter past four.
40:38Where were you between a quarter past four and five o'clock?
40:41How do you pin it down so exactly?
40:44Miss Brewis saw Marlene at 4.15.
40:47Lady Stubbs asked her to take down some food and drink to the boathouse.
40:51Lady Stubbs asked her to do that? I hardly think so.
40:54Lady Stubbs's mind revolves entirely around herself.
40:57Marlene could die of malnutrition for all she'd care.
41:01At a quarter past four, Marlene Tucker was alive and well.
41:04Oh, yes. I called out and she opened the door. She was fine.
41:08Moronic, but fine.
41:11Do you enjoy working for Sir George?
41:14I can't imagine doing anything else.
41:17Now, you listen here, lad.
41:19Now, you've simply got to do something.
41:21My wife has been missing for two hours.
41:24I am going half mad with worry.
41:26I've got men looking into it.
41:28We do have a murder to deal with, sir.
41:30Well, let's hope it's not two, then.
41:32This is a murder investigation.
41:34So, would you answer my question, please, sir?
41:37Where were you this afternoon?
41:39I went to the pub across the river.
41:42Working for these lunatics has driven me to drink.
41:46How well do you know your cousin?
41:48My second cousin.
41:50I don't know her well.
41:52And yet you just thought you'd pay her a surprise visit.
41:55Hardly a surprise visit, Inspector.
41:58I wrote to her three weeks ago from St Manon.
42:01I said I hoped to arrive in Nascombe around about today.
42:05It is hard to be specific on a sailboat.
42:08Did she reply?
42:10To be frank with you, gentlemen,
42:12I don't think Cousin Hattie has the mental capacity for writing letters.
42:16Though I understand she has grown into a lovely woman.
42:19Haven't you seen her?
42:21No, I have not.
42:23Where is she?
42:25She's probably just gone for a walk. She's a grown woman.
42:28A rather helpless one, by all accounts.
42:30Yes, when she wants to be.
42:33Tell me everything you know about Lady Stubbs.
42:36How would you describe her?
42:40I'd describe her as...
42:42ornamental.
42:44Like a trefoil or a crocket, pretty, but...
42:47useless.
42:49Backward?
42:51Backward?
42:52No.
42:54Cunning little minx.
42:56Cunning little minx?
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