- 5/21/2025
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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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00:00She didn't leave by boat.
00:04The road was closed.
00:06I reckon she's still on the property somewhere, sir.
00:08Why?
00:09You want me to stop her hopping across a fence
00:11and making off across country?
00:12Madam was wearing a bias cut chiffon dress
00:18with double Rouleau straps, whatever that is, a large red hat
00:23and shoes with three inch heels.
00:26I don't think she'll be doing no cross country run.
00:28She could have changed her clothes.
00:30Her maid says nothing's missing.
00:33No suitcase packed, nothing.
00:50Ladies, start!
00:54Ladies, stop!
00:55Ladies, stop!
00:59Hoskins, stand the man down.
01:04Uh-huh.
01:04Very well, sir.
01:13Inspector Blair.
01:15Poirot, he should have prevented the murder
01:17of Marlene Tucker.
01:18The least he can do is to find the killer.
01:21Si vous permettez, I would like to help.
01:26Anything?
01:28No, sir, I'm sorry.
01:31Sir George, there is something I should like to ask you.
01:35Did your wife receive a letter from Mr. de Souza
01:38three weeks ago saying he was coming to this country?
01:40No, we only heard the man was arriving this morning.
01:44Why does she dread seeing him so much?
01:47I, blessed if I know.
01:49Monsieur, exactly what did she say?
01:53She said, he kills people.
02:00Well, she couldn't actually say who de Souza was supposed
02:03to have killed, or where, or why.
02:06You know, but don't tell me he arrives here off his yacht
02:08and immediately strangles a girl in my boathouse
02:10doesn't make any sense.
02:11Sir George, the door to the boathouse,
02:12it has the year lock, oui?
02:14Yeah.
02:15So no one may enter without a key?
02:18So if you permit me to ask, there are how many keys?
02:22Three.
02:23Well, one was a clue in the murder hunt,
02:25concealed in some foliage at the top of the garden.
02:27The second key was in the possession of Mrs. Oliver.
02:30Where's the third key?
02:31Ah.
02:33It's here.
02:38There.
02:39Look.
02:41It always is.
02:43Now, do you see what that means?
02:45The only people who could have got into the boathouse
02:47were, firstly, the person who completed the murder hunt
02:49and found the key, which didn't happen.
02:52Secondly, Mrs. Oliver, or someone
02:54to whom she gave her key, which she says didn't happen
02:57and Poirot was with her.
02:59Or thirdly, someone who Marlene herself admitted to the room.
03:03That could be anyone out of 200 or 300 people, couldn't it?
03:06No, Sir George.
03:07Because when the girl heard someone to approach,
03:09she was to lie down and pretend to be dead.
03:12She was to be discovered by the person who had
03:14found the final clue, the key.
03:17Therefore, the only other people whom
03:18she could have admitted when they called to her
03:20from the outside were those people who had
03:22organized this murder hunt.
03:24Yourself, Lady Stubbs, Miss Brewis, Mrs. Oliver.
03:28Who else did Marlene know, Sir George?
03:30Oh, right.
03:31Um, Alec and Sally Legg, Michael Weyman, the Warburtons.
03:41Oh, and, uh, Mrs. Folliott.
03:50Sorry.
04:00It is as you said to me yesterday,
04:02madame, a world that is very wicked.
04:09Well, it's true.
04:13This morning, Lady Stubbs, she also spoke of wickedness.
04:16I shouldn't pay too much attention
04:18to the things Hattie says.
04:20So everyone tells to me she has always
04:22had the mental age of a child.
04:26As you know, madame, such people are not always
04:29accountable for their actions.
04:31In a fit of rage, they might even kill.
04:35No.
04:37Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
04:40She would never have killed anyone, never.
04:43Then can you think who might have killed Marlene Tucker?
04:47No, I can't.
04:49What can you tell me about the local people?
04:51Captain Warburton?
04:52He was working hard at the fete all afternoon.
04:55Mrs. Warburton?
04:57Enid Warburton runs the girl guides and the Gymkhana.
05:00She's clearly beyond reproach.
05:03And the Leggs, what do you know about them?
05:06They're just holidaying here.
05:08Madame Legg, she is a lady most attractive, Nesper.
05:11Vivacious.
05:12Oui.
05:14Is it possible, do you think, that at any time,
05:16Sir George Stubbs felt the attractions to Madame Legg?
05:19Good heavens, no.
05:21Sir George is extremely fond of his wife.
05:24Was it you or Lady Stubbs who asked
05:26Miss Brewers to take jam tarts down
05:28to the girl in the boathouse?
05:29Goodness, all these questions.
05:30I remember Miss Brewers collecting some cakes,
05:34but I don't recall that anyone asked her to do so.
05:38You were serving in the tea tent between 4 o'clock
05:40and 5 o'clock.
05:41I believe Mrs. Legg came in there at that time for a tea?
05:44No, she didn't.
05:46She was dressed as Madame Zulika, remember?
05:49She never set foot in the tea tent.
05:55Sorry it's so late, Mrs. Legg.
05:57Please, tell me when you last saw Lady Stubbs.
06:01I think when I came out of my tent to go and have tea.
06:07I remember her hat.
06:09Massive, wasn't it?
06:12When did you take your tea?
06:144 o'clock.
06:17In the tea tent?
06:20Was it crowded?
06:21Yes, awfully.
06:23Coach party from Torquay.
06:26Did you see anyone you knew there?
06:28Not a soul.
06:42Good morning, sir.
06:44Is there any sign of Lady Stubbs?
06:48No, I do not believe so.
06:51Monsieur Hendon, tell to me if you please.
06:54For how long a time have you been here, the butler?
06:59Just over a 12 month, sir.
07:01Ah.
07:02Ah.
07:06Merci.
07:10There's an invitation from the Lord
07:11Lieutenant of the county.
07:13OK.
07:14And Hodgson's written about the state of the milking shed.
07:19Damn the milking sheds to hell.
07:21Where is my wife?
07:24You just don't disappear, do they?
07:26Yes, sir.
07:41Utter, utter fool.
07:43Wouldn't I have possessed him to marry her?
07:46Et bien, it has been a marriage unfortunate.
07:49Disastrous.
07:51All she ever does is spend his money.
07:53Why, this year alone, she's bought two minks
07:55and a Russian ermine.
07:56He's such a, he's such an innocent.
08:03And she's a sly, scheming, clever cat.
08:08You say is and not was.
08:13She isn't dead.
08:15She's gone off with another man.
08:17She likes men.
08:19She's already made a fool of Michael Weyman.
08:21But Monsieur Weyman, he designs her tennis court.
08:24Tennis?
08:24She wouldn't know a double fault from a fruitcake.
08:28Weyman tried it on, and she gave him the heave-ho
08:30because she's found someone else.
08:31So he has, too.
08:32And if Monsieur Weyman no longer pursues Lady Stubbs,
08:35what is it about her that makes you so suspicious of her?
08:39She meets someone on the sly, Poirot.
08:43She slips out of the house and into the woods.
08:45She was out the night before last.
08:47All that yawning and saying she's too tired for dinner.
08:50Half an hour later, she's slipping
08:51out by the kitchen door.
08:52She's an alley cat, Hattie Stubbs.
09:00It's an unpleasant thing to have to face.
09:03But I'd say we've some kind of psychological lunatic
09:06wandering freely in Devon.
09:09He won't be local.
09:11Somerset, perhaps.
09:12Peut-être.
09:15May I ask you a question, if you please?
09:17How is it possible for a strange man
09:21to have gained access into the boathouse?
09:24Easy.
09:26She came out.
09:28She got bored.
09:30Girls do, trust me.
09:32The most likely thing is that Molleen saw Hattie
09:35Stubbs being murdered, so she had to be disposed of, too.
09:40Crush her windpipe, drag her back inside,
09:43flick the ale, easy.
09:46So George Stubbs believes that his wife, she is still alive?
09:50Men will believe anything.
09:53Look, I like George Stubbs.
09:55He and his wife have done wonders for Nass.
09:58Amy Folliet has sponsored them, of course,
10:00and she has influence in the county.
10:04Why, there have been Folliets here since Tudor times.
10:08There have always been Folliets at Nass.
10:50I don't know what you're talking about.
10:52I don't know what you're talking about.
10:54I don't know what you're talking about.
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13:12I don't know what you're talking about.
13:14Your brain, it is so slow.
13:24Is it hers?
13:26Let me see.
13:28Christ, it's a hat.
13:30Where is she? Where's my wife?
13:32I don't think we'll find her here.
13:34I tell you where you will find her,
13:36where you're too bloody stupid to have looked before.
13:38And where's that, sir?
13:40On that fellow's yacht, that Etienne de Souza.
13:42Damn coincidence, isn't it?
13:44I mean, he turns up and all bloody hell breaks loose.
14:12I don't know what you're talking about.
14:42Like a warrant search your vessel.
14:50Do you think I'm hiding my little cousin on board?
14:52I don't think anything, sir.
14:54Rather as I suspected.
15:12You have lost something, madame?
15:16You made me jump.
15:18Yes, I have.
15:20Or must one rendezvous when one can?
15:24I don't know what you mean.
15:30Poirot is not a husband, alas, but...
15:34he knows that they can be jealous.
15:38I doubt mine is.
15:42I hoped...
15:44when I came down here...
15:46that everything would get better.
15:50But it hasn't.
15:52Alex just...
15:56Well...
15:58he's still Alex.
16:04I don't want to live like this.
16:08No.
16:10Have a look here, sir.
16:12Got something?
16:14Yes, sir. This is the jacket the gentleman was wearing yesterday.
16:16And...
16:18look what I found in the pocket.
16:20What is it?
16:22It is the ring worn by Lady Stubbs at the time of disappearance.
16:26It matches Sir George's description.
16:28How do you come to have this, Mr. de Souza?
16:30I've no idea.
16:32I've never seen it before.
16:34Well, maybe you have, maybe you haven't.
16:36But it's grounds enough for me to arrest you.
16:38For what, may I ask?
16:40For being foreign?
16:42For the murder of Harriet Stubbs.
16:44For the...
16:46You have no proof at all.
16:48This is meant to be a civilized country.
16:50We like to think so, sir.
16:54Hoskins.
16:56Is this what you were looking for, madam?
16:58Oh, yes.
17:02Thank you,
17:04Monsieur Poirot.
17:06I must have dropped it.
17:08Oui.
17:20We've got him, Poirot.
17:22Her ring was in the pocket of his blazer.
17:24With that and all the hearsay evidence,
17:26I reckon I can get a conviction.
17:28For the murder of Lady Stubbs,
17:30whose body has never been found?
17:32Well, it was dumped in the river.
17:34Floated out to sea.
17:36It'll turn up in time.
17:38No, I'm sure she was killed here at Nass.
17:40If I'd closed the roads,
17:42put a man at the key,
17:44checked all the buses and trains,
17:46there was never a sign of her.
17:48No.
17:50She was dumped in the river,
17:52near where we found her hat.
17:54And Marlene Tucker saw it happening.
17:56So, probably,
17:58de Souza fixed her, too.
18:00It is not Etienne de Souza.
18:02Why not?
18:04How did he know where to find her
18:06when his boat had only just arrived?
18:08No.
18:10It does not make any sense.
18:18Bonjour, monsieur, madame.
18:20Do we want the ferry, sir?
18:22Non, merci.
18:24I return today to London.
18:26Poor fellow.
18:28Why must he do that?
18:32Because Poirot, he has failed.
18:34Because...
18:38Poirot is an imbecile.
19:02Poirot is an imbecile.
19:26Did Hattie Stubbs
19:28ask Mademoiselle Brewist
19:30to take the jam tarts
19:32to Marlene Tucker in the boathouse?
19:34If not,
19:36why does she say that she did?
19:40Is it possible
19:42that Mademoiselle Brewist
19:44found Marlene Tucker already dead?
19:46In which case,
19:48why does she not report this?
19:50She is a woman most sensible.
19:52Unless she killed her, of course.
19:54No, pas de motif.
19:56Why did Etienne de Souza
19:58leave his cousin three weeks
20:00before his arrival at Nassau's?
20:02Is it perhaps an attempt
20:04to make his visit
20:06to appear natural or expected?
20:08Certainement,
20:10Sir George receives him amicably,
20:12although he does not know him.
20:14Attendez.
20:18Sir George does not know
20:20Etienne de Souza,
20:22but his wife, who does know him,
20:24does not see him.
20:26So is it conceivable
20:30that the Etienne de Souza
20:32who arrives at the fete
20:34is not the real Etienne de Souza?
20:40When is his trial?
20:42Three weeks.
20:44The jury will take one look at de Souza
20:46and they will convict him.
20:48This man will hang.
20:50Usually the villain's the husband.
20:52Oui, je sais.
20:54He has the alibi.
20:56There are 200 people willing
20:58to testify that Sir George, he never left the fete.
21:00But there is someone,
21:02someone who knows
21:04what happened to Hattie Stubbs.
21:06You think the body is still there?
21:08It appears
21:10that she has been thrown into the river,
21:12but it is possible that she is
21:14in the grounds.
21:16There isn't a priest's hole
21:18or anything like that, is there?
21:20No, I asked this question to Monsieur Michael Weyman.
21:22It appears to me that the house is not of the correct period for this.
21:24All the same,
21:26there might be something
21:28in the structure
21:30that only the family know about.
21:32But the only member of the family who is left is Madame Foliade.
21:34Well, she knows everything
21:36there is to know about Nass,
21:38doesn't she?
21:40It is a true thing that you say.
21:44She knows everything.
21:48Par exemple, she knows straight away that Hattie Stubbs is dead.
21:50She knows even before the death of Marlene Tucker
21:52that the world,
21:54it is a place most wicked.
21:58What is there that she does not know?
22:20Monsieur Leck?
22:44Monsieur Leck?
22:50You are leaving Nass' house?
22:52Yes.
22:54Sally is cleared out.
22:56No.
22:58With that bastard Weyman.
23:00I do not think she will be as happy with him as she would be with you.
23:02You think so, do you?
23:04Yes, I do, monsieur.
23:06And shall I tell you what else I think?
23:08I think that your opinions so extreme
23:10have made you impossible to live with.
23:12Your wife, Sally Leck,
23:14she is a woman of loyalty,
23:16but you have pushed her too hard, monsieur.
23:18You are a man who is very lonely,
23:20very desperate,
23:22and if you had told your wife, Madame Sally,
23:24just how you are so lonely and how you are so desperate,
23:26she would never have left you for Michael Weyman.
23:30You don't know how right you are.
23:32Oui.
23:34I've been an absolute dummy.
23:36Oui.
23:38It's politics, eh, Poirot?
23:40It's hardly worth losing your wife for.
23:42No, I do not think they are, monsieur.
23:44No.
23:46What you should do, monsieur,
23:48is to find Madame Sally, but immediately.
23:50Ask her to forgive you and beg her to come back.
23:52And Hercule Poirot, he is always right, monsieur.
23:54Do you know, I think I will.
23:56Bon.
23:58And I'll go to the bloody Chelsea Arts Club
24:00and I'll get a hold of Michael Weyman
24:02and I'll throttle the ponce with his ridiculous tie.
24:04Bon.
24:06And if you please, monsieur Leck,
24:08do not actually kill him, eh?
24:16Bon.
24:28Bonjour, madame.
24:40I feel very sorry for George.
24:42The strain has been very great.
24:44So...
24:46so George still believes that his wife,
24:48she is alive?
24:50I think he's given up hope.
24:52He does not say so, but...
24:56Of course,
24:58I've hardly seen him lately.
25:00He spends most of his time in London.
25:04He's drinking too much.
25:08I am very tired,
25:10monsieur Poirot.
25:12Well, I have not much to live for.
25:16But you have your home.
25:20Monsieur, I am grateful to George Stubbs
25:22for renting me the lodge,
25:24but I do rent it.
25:26I pay him a yearly sum for it,
25:28with a right to walk in the grounds.
25:30The grounds of my ancestral home.
25:34Oh, je suis désolé, madame.
25:36I do not mean to offend.
25:38I mean only to say that this is a place so beautiful.
25:40It is, in fact, one of the most beautiful places
25:42I have seen in England.
25:44It has about it the great peace
25:46and the great serenity.
25:50Yes.
25:52But is there still the same peace and serenity now, madame?
25:54Why shouldn't there be?
25:56Because the murder, it is gone unavenged,
25:58and blood, it has been spilled.
26:00And here is the smell of it, the reek of it,
26:02drifting across the lawn on the breeze.
26:04I think that is quite enough.
26:06Madame, until the curse is lifted,
26:08you know this is true.
26:10You know a great deal,
26:12perhaps everything about the murder.
26:14You know who killed the girl.
26:16You know why.
26:18You know who killed Hattie Stubbs.
26:20And you know perhaps where the body, it now lies.
26:22I have only my suspicions.
26:24And to speak out on mere suspicion
26:26would be wrong.
26:28Wicked.
26:30As wicked as what was done here at his now since five weeks?
26:32As wicked as the killing of a girl
26:34who has only 14 years of age?
26:36It's over and done. It's finished.
26:38No, madame, it is never finished with the murder.
26:40Jamais.
26:48Mademoiselle, where is Monsieur Medel?
26:50Grandad?
26:52He's dead.
26:54Grandad?
26:56So Monsieur Medel
26:58was your grandfather?
27:02Your grandfather,
27:04he was very old.
27:06He didn't die because he was old.
27:08He died because he was drunk.
27:10He slipped when getting off the boat
27:12one night and fell in.
27:14Washed up two days later at Helmuth.
27:16And how do you call yourself?
27:18Gertie Tucker.
27:20A relation
27:22to Marlene Tucker?
27:24Her was my sister.
27:26So Monsieur Medel
27:28was her grandfather also?
27:30He got cross at her when she got the make-up.
27:32The make-up, Gertie?
27:34Loads of lipstick she had.
27:36And scent, hidden in her nickel jar.
27:38Lovely they was.
27:42Tell to me, Gertie, how did Marlene get the money
27:44to buy these things?
27:46Her see goings on in the woods.
27:48Marlene will promise not to tell
27:50and they give her money.
27:52But who would give her money?
28:02At last,
28:04at last,
28:06Poirot,
28:08he begins to see.
28:16Come at once.
28:18Nasshaus,
28:20Devon.
28:22Mais pourquoi?
28:24Because it is important,
28:26madame.
28:28I should hope so.
28:30I asked you to give a talk.
28:32That's why I'm dressed in this ridiculous outfit.
28:34Instead, I ran for the express train.
28:36What was the subject of your talk?
28:38My writing.
28:40Awfully pleased not to have to give it as a matter of fact.
28:42I mean, what does one say about how one writes books?
28:44You just think of an idea
28:46and force yourself to write it.
28:48What am I going to say for the other 59 minutes?
28:50Madame, your hat.
28:52C'est magnifique.
28:54Oh, thank you.
28:56It's jolly expensive.
28:58Hats are really a symbol nowadays, aren't they?
29:00They don't keep your head warm
29:02or shield you from the sun
29:04or hide your face from people you don't want to meet.
29:06I mean, they're just ornamental.
29:10Always you give to me the ideas.
29:14Tell to me, madame.
29:16In your murder hunt,
29:18you have as one of your suspects
29:20a biochemist.
29:22Do you know a biochemist personally?
29:24Yes, I know Alec Legg.
29:26I know his wife, Sally Legg,
29:28but she is not Yugoslavian, is she?
29:30So what gives to you the idea
29:32of having a wife who is Yugoslavian
29:34for the victim?
29:36Oh, I don't know.
29:38All those youth hostilities, perhaps.
29:40All those gals in shorts.
29:42But, madame, I am most interested in how you write.
29:44You are a woman who is most sensitive.
29:46You are affected by the atmosphere,
29:48by the personalities that surround you.
29:50These are the inspirations
29:52for your brain that is so fertile.
29:54So tell to me, madame.
29:56When you first designed your murder hunt,
29:58did you intend for the body
30:00to be discovered in the boathouse?
30:02No, I did not.
30:04I intended it to be found
30:06in that pavilion tucked away
30:08among the rhododendrons, but then someone...
30:10I can't remember who...
30:12began insisting
30:14it should be found in the folly.
30:16Well, that was obviously bonkers.
30:18I mean, anyone could have
30:20strolled in there quite casually.
30:22I couldn't agree to that.
30:24So you accepted it in the boathouse instead.
30:26And that was the technique
30:28that you described to me on that first day.
30:30Remember? The jockeying along.
30:34One last thing, madame.
30:36Do you remember telling me
30:38that there was a final clue
30:40on one of the comics that was given
30:42to Marlene Tucker to read?
30:44Was it something like,
30:46Biddy Fox has a secret den?
30:48Good gracious me, no.
30:50Nothing silly like that.
30:52Oh, it was a perfectly straightforward clue.
30:54Look in the hiker's rucksack.
30:56Eh, pardon?
30:58The comic on which that was written
31:00would have to be taken away.
31:02Why?
31:04Because immediately it points to the murderer.
31:08Inspector Bland,
31:10you must telephone to Scotland Yard, tootsweet.
31:12Why?
31:14Because Etienne de Souza, he is innocent.
31:16No, he is a man of great wealth.
31:18So what?
31:20So, what is his motive?
31:24Let me put to you the facts.
31:26Facts? What facts?
31:28The fact that old John Murdell
31:30was the grandfather of Marlene Tucker.
31:32The fact that Lady Stubbs always wore
31:34those particular types of floppy hat.
31:36The fact that Marlene Tucker
31:38had cosmetics hidden in the back of her drawer.
31:40And the fact that Mademoiselle Bruys
31:42maintains it was Lady Stubbs
31:44who asked her to take refreshments to the boathouse.
31:48You call those facts, do you, in London?
31:50You prefer the hard evidence,
31:52such as the body of Lady Stubbs?
31:54Hello, I know where it is hidden
31:56and who hid it there.
31:58So if you please, to make that telephone call
32:00to Scotland Yard.
32:18Why did you ask me to come here?
32:20I think that you know, madam.
32:22What do you think, sir?
32:24I don't know.
32:26I don't know.
32:28I don't.
32:32I don't know.
32:34I don't know.
32:36I don't know.
32:38I don't know.
32:40I don't know.
32:42I don't know.
32:44I don't know.
32:46Good evening, sir.
33:00There have now been three murders.
33:02Hattie Stubbs, Marlene Tucker, and John Murdell.
33:09Murdell?
33:11That was an accident.
33:12He fell from the quayside.
33:14He was drunk.
33:15No.
33:16No, it was not an accident, madame.
33:20He knew too much.
33:23He knew all about the Folliet family.
33:24He knew about your husband.
33:26He knew about your two sons who died abroad.
33:33Only they did not, did they?
33:36Henry was indeed killed in action on the Northwest
33:38Frontier, but James?
33:41No, he did not die as you said.
33:45James, who was so brilliant, so wild.
33:50James, who was also, to you, so shaming.
33:56John Murdell told me of him, madame,
33:58and the records have been checked.
34:02What did he do to that young dairy maid
34:04when he was only about 14 years of age?
34:06Do you know?
34:07No, I don't.
34:10Where did you send him, madame?
34:15South Africa.
34:16Where?
34:18You said you never saw him again.
34:22You heard that he had died in an airplane crash.
34:25You mourned.
34:26You said your prayers, but what then has happened, madame?
34:33He came back.
34:35Why?
34:36Because your son, he made the pretense of his own death.
34:39And then you sent him to South Africa.
34:41Because your son, he made the pretense of his own death.
34:44And then you learned that he is pursued by the police
34:46in several countries.
34:49And you agree, and he must have been so persuasive,
34:52you agree to give him one more chance.
34:55Just one.
34:56Why?
35:00I believe that you are a woman most sincere and most moral.
35:08And I believe that it was from the best of your intentions
35:10that you did everything you could
35:12to give to your son, who was wayward, a new life.
35:19At that time, you had in your charge a young girl
35:22who was sadly subnormal.
35:25But she was rich, young, so rich.
35:27She was worth a fortune.
35:30But you gave it out that her parents
35:32had lost all their money.
35:33And you were advising her to marry
35:35a man who was wealthy and several years
35:36older than herself.
35:40And who could disbelieve you?
35:42Your lawyers in Paris, where you were living at that time,
35:44handled everything.
35:46And Hattie Stubbs, when she came of age,
35:51would sign whatever you put in front of her.
35:54And so in the end, Sir George Stubbs, the new identity
36:01assumed by your son James, became
36:04a man who was very rich, rich enough to buy Nass House.
36:10And there your plans, they ended, eh, Mama?
36:15Your son, he was a worthy man.
36:17He had his ancestral home.
36:19And Hattie Stubbs, well, you could take care of her.
36:25Samash!
36:27I never dreamed.
36:28No, you never dreamed that your son James,
36:31he was already married.
36:33He was married to a girl he met in Trieste,
36:36a girl of the criminal underworld,
36:38who was determined not to be parted from your son.
36:40He's a wicked, wicked creature.
36:43But your Hattie knew no one in England.
36:49Good evening, Hattie.
36:52Come along, my dear.
36:55When they arrived back at Nass House after their marriage,
36:58all of the servants who were new, including the butler,
37:00barely caught sight of her that first evening.
37:02And the following morning, the woman that they met
37:05was not Hattie Stubbs, no, but this Italian,
37:08made up to look like Hattie, behaving as Hattie,
37:11but Hattie, the real Hattie, was dead.
37:16She was killed the first evening she arrived here
37:19by your son, wait, by your son's mother,
37:22James Folliat.
37:25This plan, it was so clever.
37:31The false Hattie Stubbs, over the years,
37:34would respond to treatment.
37:36She would get better and better and make the full recovery.
37:42But this Italian did not convince Mlle. Bruys.
37:45I have a headache!
37:47Who was herself in love with Sir George.
37:52But then something unforeseen occurs.
37:56A cousin of Hattie, Etienne de Souza,
38:00writes to her a telegram.
38:02Oh, no.
38:04Telling her that he is visiting England on a yachting trip.
38:07Is it done?
38:09He would not be deceived by an imposter.
38:12Ain't he strange, is it not?
38:15That although the thought did cross my mind
38:17that this Etienne de Souza may not be Etienne de Souza,
38:20it never occurred to Poirot
38:23that Hattie Stubbs was not Hattie Stubbs.
38:27Hattie Stubbs.
38:31And there was a further complication.
38:34John Myrdal used to...
38:39What is the word?
38:42Chatter to his granddaughter, Marlene Tucker.
38:47If someone leaves a woman's body in the woods with no clothes on,
38:51he's liable to be a sex maniac, isn't he?
38:55Nobody else would listen to him
38:57because they thought he was a little daft.
39:00But he told to his granddaughter Marlene
39:02that Sir George was, in fact, Master James.
39:10Alors, Marlene Tucker,
39:13she blackmails Sir George for her silence.
39:17But in so doing, she signs her death warrant.
39:21They arrange it
39:23so that Marlene Tucker is killed
39:26and Hattie Stubbs goes missing.
39:29In such a way, the suspicion is thrown
39:32onto her cousin Etienne de Souza.
39:35Hence the references to him being a man most wicked.
39:39Delighted to meet you, Master James.
39:42And Sir George, he plants the evidence.
39:46This Lady Stubbs
39:50was to disappear permanently.
39:53After a period of mourning,
39:56Sir George would rejoin her in Italy
39:59where they would again be married.
40:02All that was necessary for her now was to double the parts
40:06for a little more than a period of, what, 24 hours.
40:10When Hercule Poirot, he arrives,
40:13Hattie Stubbs takes the bus to Exeter
40:17and travels back in the company of a youth hosteller
40:20she meets on the train.
40:22You don't mind, do you, sir?
40:24She books into the hostel with this Dutch girl.
40:28But by tea time,
40:31she is here, back at her window.
40:37After dinner, she retires early to bed.
40:40I feel strange.
40:43Hattie sees her to sleep out of the back door.
40:47She spends the night in the youth hostel,
40:50returns to Nass for breakfast,
40:54after which she spends the rest of the morning
40:57in her room with her headache.
41:01She then stages her appearance
41:05as a trespasser.
41:08You can't come through here!
41:11Sir George shouts to her from the window of his wife.
41:14What's a Hattie?
41:16He turns and even pretends to speak to her inside.
41:20She is not there.
41:23No one would ever dream that these two women
41:26were the same person, and no one did.
41:30And so the final act of this drama is staged.
41:36A little before 4 o'clock on the day of the fate,
41:40Hattie tells the Mademoiselle Brewis
41:43to take the jam tarts to Marlene.
41:46Now, she does this because she is afraid
41:49the Mademoiselle Brewis may do this independently,
41:52and that would be fatal to their plans.
41:55She slips into the tent of the fortune teller
41:58while Sallie-Leigh is out,
42:01as she has a secret rendezvous with Michael Weyman.
42:04She goes through the back into the pavilion,
42:07and finds her rucksack,
42:14for who he has found the buckle from the strap.
42:17And that is why the pavilion was not used for the murder hunt.
42:24She then goes down to the boathouse
42:27and calls to Marlene to let her in,
42:32and she strangles her.
42:37She leaves her big floppy hat by the riverside,
42:41and hastily joins her Dutch friend on the lawn.
42:46A little before 5, they take the bus to Torquay,
42:50and a little after 5, the police, they arrive.
42:57Where she is now, I do not know,
43:00but I am convinced that the police, they will find her.
43:03Remember, madame, that before,
43:05they were not looking for an Italian confidence trickster.
43:09No, they were looking for Hattie.
43:14Simple, subnormal,
43:19and dead.
43:21And this you have always known, madame.
43:24You revealed your knowledge to me
43:27when you spoke to me in the dining room on the evening of the fatal.
43:31When you spoke to me in the dining room on the evening of the fate,
43:34you revealed most clearly,
43:36although Poirot, he did not see it at the time,
43:38that when speaking of Hattie Stubbs...
43:40I shouldn't pay too much attention to the things Hattie says.
43:43You were speaking of two different people.
43:47Hattie was a gentle, warm-hearted girl.
43:50She would never have killed anyone, never.
43:55There remained one problem to be dealt with.
43:59The man who knew the truth about your son,
44:02John Merdel.
44:07His death is made to look like an accident,
44:10as if he had fallen into the water while he was drunk.
44:18But in fact, it was murder, madame.
44:21Murder committed by your son,
44:24James Fouliat.
44:29Allow a few, please, to come with me, madame.
44:42It is a good place to bury a body.
44:46A tree, it is uprooted in a storm.
44:49The soil, it is disturbed.
44:52And very soon, a young lady,
44:55she is covered with concrete.
44:59And on the concrete, a folly, it is built.
45:03The folly of the owner of Nass.
45:06Monsieur Poirot, I will face my punishment,
45:10I assure you of that.
45:13But before I do,
45:16will you give me a few moments with my son,
45:19as a courtesy to an old lady?
45:22A courtesy to an old lady.
45:29As a courtesy from an old gentleman, madame.
45:35I will allow it.
45:38Bless you.
45:42All right, let's bring in Sir George.
45:44If you're pleased to wait.
45:47I have allowed Madame Fouliat a few moments.
45:51You've no authority to do that.
45:55Dommage.
45:58It is done.
46:21Mother.
46:23And what are you doing here?
46:31They're digging up the folly.
46:36You know what they will find.
46:39Quite a good scheme.
46:42Almost worked.
46:46It was like every one of your schemes.
46:50It was cruel and criminal.
46:53And it failed.
46:57You have done it.
47:02You have done it.
47:05And it failed.
47:08You have brought disgrace to the family name.
47:12The name of Fouliat.
47:17Dear God.
47:26What am I to do?
47:30You will do, James.
47:34Exactly what I tell you.
47:39For once, just for once,
47:43you will obey your mother.
47:49What put you onto them?
47:52Intuition, perhaps?
47:56No, madame.
47:58The deduction.
48:01When old John, mother,
48:03told to me there will always be Fouliats at Nass,
48:07it was his little private joke.
48:10And Poirot, he has realized this very late.
48:16You see, madame,
48:19he knew.
48:22So now will you release the suzer?
48:26Yes. All right.
48:28Time's up. Come on.
48:31Come on.
48:37Quick.
48:39Follow me.
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