- 5/23/2025
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Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father. Starring: David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens, Gemma Jones, Patrick Malahide, Marc Warren, Julie Cox, Aimee Mullins.
Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father. Starring: David Suchet, Rachael Stirling, Aidan Gillen, Toby Stephens, Gemma Jones, Patrick Malahide, Marc Warren, Julie Cox, Aimee Mullins.
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00:00For not acting sooner, but how on earth could anyone have assumed at that point that someone
00:11had murder in mind?
00:14I needed time to think, so just before lunch, I sat above the water garden where Ammias
00:21was painting Elsa.
00:22So radiant, full of life, more alive than any person I have ever known.
00:40The blind confidence of youth.
00:47Oh, Grumpy doesn't want any lunch.
00:59The problem was he often looked like that when he was working, so I didn't think anything
01:03of it.
01:04Elsa.
01:05I could eat a horse.
01:11You know, I do so wish that...
01:14What?
01:15Well, that you and Ammias would stop it.
01:20Just stop it.
01:21He has a wife and child.
01:23His place is with them.
01:26Oh, Meredith.
01:31After lunch, I had coffee on the terrace.
01:36Caroline took a cup down to Ammias and Miss Williams accompanied her.
01:40I followed shortly afterwards, I think, to walk off my lunch.
01:44Mr. Blake.
01:45Mr. Blake.
01:46What's wrong?
01:47A terrible thing.
01:48What on earth is it?
01:53Mr. Crail, he's dead.
01:57Would you be so kind as to call a doctor?
02:15Get a doctor quick.
02:16What's wrong?
02:17It's Ammias.
02:18What?
02:19I'm afraid he's dead.
02:20Ammias?
02:21Poor child.
02:22She just couldn't believe that life could play so cruel a trick.
02:36Caroline stood there quite calmly and said he must have done it to himself.
02:40So you are perfectly convinced, monsieur, that she was guilty?
02:44She was provoked in the extreme.
02:48But you do not believe it was suicide?
02:52Caroline did it.
02:53I'm sure of it.
02:54And anyway?
02:55Well, if she didn't...
02:56Mr. Crail, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
03:25I'm sorry.
03:31Hercule Poirot, mademoiselle.
03:42Lucy Crail.
03:44She must have been very young when last you saw her.
03:48Seven and a half.
03:51Charming.
03:53A little too quiet.
03:54Lived in a world of her own.
03:57If you please to tell me, mademoiselle, her parents, they were most devoted, yes?
04:03One does occasionally find, monsieur Poirot, a husband and wife so wrapped up in each other
04:08that the child hardly seems to impinge.
04:11To more like lovers than husband and wife?
04:13If that's how you wish to put it.
04:16Did you like madame Crail?
04:18Yes, I was very fond of her.
04:21And your pupil?
04:23Angela was a most interesting, if difficult, girl.
04:28I cherish the belief that I've played a modest part in her success.
04:33Have you read her book on the tombs and the faeum?
04:37Sadly, no.
04:39It's compelling stuff.
04:40Read it.
04:41Yes, yes, yes I shall.
04:46You must have been upset when she was sent away to school.
04:50No, no, not at all.
04:52Her home life was hardly what one would term ideal.
04:56Caroline indulged her.
04:58Amius got jealous.
04:59He and Angela would fight.
05:01She'd end up playing some spiteful trick.
05:04Although, of course, far greater ructions prevailed.
05:08You mean Elsa Greer?
05:10Exactly.
05:15What was your opinion of her?
05:16She was thoroughly unprincipled.
05:18And also very much in love.
05:20His death must have been for her a shock most terrible.
05:22And it was entirely her fault.
05:24Mademoiselle Greer?
05:25The way she carried on.
05:27She even had the insolence to suggest they were going to marry.
05:31It's only fair that she should know.
05:33Amius, is it true?
05:39Then it is.
05:43The look she gave him, magnificent.
05:47And then she walked out, head held high, her grace and dignity unsullied.
05:52Was she aware of how much you admired her?
05:55I believe.
05:56I hope that I adequately expressed my support for her.
06:05Mrs. Crail.
06:06Not now, Miss Williams.
06:07I just wanted to tell...
06:08Another time.
06:10Please.
06:11Yes, of course.
06:12I'm sorry.
06:15I think you're wonderful.
06:16But you don't know.
06:30And then?
06:33Mademoiselle?
06:38And then they all went to tea at Meredith Blake's.
06:43And that evening after dinner, the usual arguments began about Angela and school.
06:49Now you listen to me.
06:50The fees are paid.
06:51The uniforms bought.
06:52The matter is closed.
06:53I'm not going.
06:54It's a lovely school, darling.
06:55It's right in the middle of the Downs.
06:57I'm sure you'll make lots of nice friends.
06:59I don't want any friends.
07:00You won't get any if you carry on like this.
07:02Why do you want to get rid of me?
07:04Nobody wants to get rid of you.
07:06You know we all love you.
07:08He doesn't.
07:09He won't care if he never saw me again.
07:11You're right.
07:12All this screeching like a fishwife.
07:15You know all about them.
07:17Now look here, girly.
07:19I wish you were dead.
07:20Angela!
07:31I followed Angela to her room and reprimanded her sharply.
07:38This morning was so beautiful, I fondly thought it might restore some peace to our lives.
07:44Little did I know it was the harbinger of murder.
07:48Angela!
07:51Angela had yet again disappeared.
07:53I thought for a swim, but there was no sign of her.
07:56So I returned to the house.
07:59Mrs. Crail was about to serve some beer before lunch, so I offered to help her.
08:03We went to the cellar, which was used for cold storage.
08:06As we arrived, we found Angela behaving in a most suspicious manner.
08:11What on earth are you doing with that?
08:14I was just...
08:15I hope you weren't thinking of drinking it.
08:18I'll take it if you don't mind.
08:22Would you mind serving the others?
08:23I'll pop this down to Amir's.
08:26And all this time, Mlle. Crail was sitting for Mr. Crail?
08:30Yes.
08:33Oh, he got what he deserved.
08:35Well, he acted very badly, oui, c'est vrai.
08:38But he was...
08:42a great artist, n'est-ce pas?
08:44Great? Couldn't even draw.
08:47His perspective was terrible, his anatomy was all over the place.
08:50I know what I'm talking about.
08:51I studied art as a girl in Florence.
08:54Tell me, Mlle.
08:56You were with Mlle. Crail when she discovered the body, yes?
09:01No, not exactly.
09:04We went down from the house together after lunch.
09:07She was taking Mr. Crail some coffee
09:09and I was going to the beach to look for Angela's jersey.
09:13Amir's? Amir's?
09:26Mlle. Crail?
09:29It's Amir's.
09:31He's dead.
09:33Mr. Blake! Mr. Blake!
09:36I bumped into Meredith Blake.
09:39I told him the terrible news
09:41and asked him to telephone the doctor.
09:45I was most concerned about Mlle. Crail.
09:48I didn't want her to be left alone.
09:51Did you get an impression of what Mlle. Crail was thinking at that time?
09:57It was impossible to tell.
09:59She was stunned.
10:02What view did she adopt officially as to his death?
10:07Suicide.
10:09What even imprived it to you?
10:11She had no doubt whatsoever.
10:17And what did you say to her?
10:20Is that chair uncomfortable, mademoiselle?
10:22It's perfectly comfortable, thank you.
10:26You were about to tell me.
10:28I think I said,
10:30certainly, Mlle. Crail, it must have been suicide.
10:33Did you believe that?
10:35No, I did not, but understand this.
10:37I was entirely on her side.
10:39So you would have liked to have seen her acquitted?
10:41Well, of course I would.
10:43A woman of honor, of dignity,
10:45Of course I would. A woman of honor, of dignity,
10:47hanged like a carcass in a butcher's shop.
10:53Poor Lucy.
10:55Having to be confronted by all of this.
10:58Still, it is always better to face the truth.
11:01But there is more to it than that.
11:02She wants to prove her mother to be innocent.
11:04Then her wish will not be granted.
11:08Before she was hanged, Mlle. Crail wrote to her daughter a letter
11:11in which she solemnly swears her innocence.
11:16It would perhaps have been better
11:20to tell her daughter not to judge.
11:23You seem very sure of her guilt.
11:25It's hard to believe otherwise.
11:27And yet you profess to have loved her.
11:30I did love her.
11:32I did.
11:36If that is all.
11:40Ah, yes, yes, of course.
11:45Thank you very much for your time, Mlle.
11:48You have been most helpful.
11:54I know that she was guilty, Monsieur.
12:00Without a shadow of a doubt.
12:02May I ask how?
12:05After bumping into Meredith Blake
12:08and informing him of Mr. Crail's death,
12:11I returned to the Water Garden.
12:16Mlle. Crail was not in command of herself, as I implied.
12:21It was the fear on her face that told me the truth.
12:27That's when I knew she had poisoned her husband.
12:32And I, for one, do not blame her.
12:38She never knew what I'd seen.
12:41And I never told her.
12:44In fact, I never told anybody.
12:48During the trial, I was never asked a question
12:52to which I returned an untrue answer.
12:55But I was guilty of withholding certain facts.
12:59And I do not repent of that, Mlle. Poirot.
13:03I would do so again.
13:13The highly sophisticated civilisation of the Second World War
13:18was in fact just as corrupt and venal a society as today.
13:23Since then, there have been other key excavations,
13:27but none as remarkable as Chagall Bazaar.
13:35Thank you so much for coming.
13:43Hercule Poirot, Mlle.
13:47The Chagall Bazaar dig was quite simply extraordinary.
13:50Did you read my account of it in the National Geographic?
13:52Sadly, no. I have not yet had the...
13:54Fairly definitive, though I do say so myself.
13:57Little Lucy. I'd so like to see her.
14:00You have not kept in contact?
14:02No. Not nearly as much as I should have done.
14:04I think it's admirable she wants to clear her mother's name.
14:07Ah. Then you approve?
14:09Of course.
14:11Caroline didn't do it. I've always known that.
14:15You surprise me, Mlle.
14:18Everyone else with whom I have spoken...
14:20I know. I know.
14:22Circumstantial evidence was overwhelming.
14:25That's frankly why I've never attempted anything myself.
14:28I knew my sister extremely well.
14:31She quite simply couldn't have killed anyone.
14:34But human nature has the infinite capacity to surprise.
14:37Oh. Not in this instance.
14:40How can you be so certain?
14:42Because I am.
14:44But I'm afraid, Mlle, that that will not stand up in court.
14:47Just as well I was never called to give evidence.
14:49But if you had been?
14:51This is why I know.
14:55But for many that would prove the exact opposite.
14:58As they claimed at the trial.
15:00This was a moment's rage.
15:02It haunted her for the rest of her life.
15:05She never forgave herself.
15:07As a result, she was constantly on her guard.
15:09I'm not saying she was meek or timid.
15:11Quite the opposite.
15:13Murder?
15:14Never.
15:15Never.
15:23It was an idyllic summer.
15:25In so many ways.
15:27But I can remember of it.
15:34Oh, come on, Lucy. Do shoot me.
15:36That's the whole point.
15:40Look!
15:42Woo!
15:49If only that woman hadn't come into our lives.
15:53All this pretense.
15:55It's so dishonest.
15:57Amias and I love each other and we are going to be married.
16:00So why should she be moving in?
16:04Then when Amias came out...
16:06Why did Elsa say she's going to marry you?
16:08How the devil did you hear that?
16:10The window's open.
16:11It's damned rude, eavesdropping.
16:13But why did she say it?
16:14It was a joke.
16:15Doesn't sound very funny to me.
16:16Enough, all right!
16:18Come on.
16:20Come on.
16:21Come on.
16:25And then on our way to tea at Meredith's, I confronted Caroline.
16:29Is it true?
16:30What, darling?
16:32That Elsa's going to marry Amias.
16:37Only after I'm dead.
16:48The rest of the day is a blur.
16:50I can remember Meredith reading something rather beautiful about Socrates.
16:55He said that when it reached the heart, Socrates would be gone.
17:00And then Amias and I having a real humdinger after dinner.
17:03Now look here, girly.
17:05I think I threw something at him.
17:07And then the next day, the day it happened, again it's all very vague.
17:13Up until the point Meredith came panting down the path.
17:17I kept saying to myself, Amias is dead.
17:22But it didn't seem real.
17:25Then the doctor came, police came and they brought him up to the house.
17:36I want you to go to Grandma's with Lucy.
17:39No, no. I don't want to go.
17:42I want to stay with you.
17:44I know, my darling.
17:46But it's best that you do. It'll be easier that way, believe me.
17:50No, please. I don't want to leave you.
17:52For me, my darling. Do it for me.
17:56And you must try not to think about it.
18:01There's nothing to worry about.
18:04I promise.
18:14And that was the last time I ever saw her.
18:23The end of summer.
18:26It was the end of childhood.
18:29A few days later she was arrested.
18:31I was sent to school in Germany.
18:33Lucy was sent to relatives in Canada.
18:38Just before she was hanged, she wrote me a letter.
18:41I've never shown it to anyone.
18:44I think you should read it.
18:57Merci, mademoiselle.
19:01My darling Angela.
19:03I want you to know that it is all, all right.
19:06I have never lied to you.
19:08And I don't know when I say that I am happy.
19:11That I feel at peace that I've never known before.
19:17It's remarkable.
19:19She was a remarkable person. And innocent.
19:22But the letter, it does not say so explicitly.
19:25Because she didn't need to say it.
19:28Then how do you think Amies Krell died?
19:31Suicide.
19:34But is that not out of character?
19:36As you said before, human nature has an infinite capacity to surprise.
19:45Then you can see no other explanation.
19:49You mean someone else might have killed him?
19:51Oui.
19:52I think it unlikely.
19:54But if for one second we consider the possibility, what then?
19:58I would say Philip Blake might be your man.
20:01Now that interests me very much, mademoiselle. May I ask why?
20:05I cannot see what possible motive he could have.
20:08He was the best friend of Amies Krell, n'est-ce pas?
20:11Or were the two men rivals perhaps over Elsa?
20:13Not Elsa.
20:18One night that summer, I got up to go to the bathroom.
20:23When I opened the door, I saw Caroline coming out of Philip's bedroom.
20:28She had a look on her face at the time. I didn't really understand.
20:33But looking back...
20:35I got the impression from Monsieur Blake that always he disliked your sister.
20:38I have, I confess, precious little experience of affairs of the heart.
20:43But what other explanation could there possibly be?
20:53This could be a disaster.
20:55You can trust me, mademoiselle.
21:53I once had a girl, it was almost new.
21:57Oh, the daintiest thing, it was sweet Alice Blue.
22:01It warms my heart to see you all together again.
22:26Is Lucy joining us?
22:31Yes.
22:40This is very good of you, Mrs. Spriggs.
22:43A pleasure, sir. It is really.
22:49I'm very proud of you, my dear.
22:52I wish someone would tell us the point of all this.
23:02If you will excuse me.
23:17Lady Titian, I am delighted that you could make it.
23:20I hope it's worth it.
23:22God, this place is falling apart.
23:24I thought that before we joined the others...
23:26I'd kill for a martini.
23:29We might have a little word.
23:31You don't let up, do you?
23:33To come straight to the point.
23:35I'm pleased to hear it.
23:36After the trial, did Meredith Blake show any interest in you at all?
23:42Animals. Stupid, unthinking animals.
23:48Oh, what a terrible ordeal for you, my dear.
23:51What a brave girl you are.
23:54Elsa, I've had special feelings for you ever since we met, you know.
24:00And now you're all alone in the world.
24:03Oh, do shut up.
24:05Were you not surprised?
24:07Just faintly nauseated.
24:09Can I have my martini now?
24:12But of course.
24:24Well.
24:26What a hoot.
24:42I can't want to have a moment's peace.
24:45You were not entirely honest with me, I think, when we had our chat in London.
24:50Is that so?
24:51Yes, indeed, Monsieur Blake.
24:53On at least one night during that summer,
24:55Madame Crail was seen coming out of your room at an hour somewhat compromising.
25:01Who told you that?
25:05It's none of your damn business.
25:08I am afraid that it is, Monsieur, if this matter is to be led to rest.
25:16She thought she might try it on.
25:18She thought she might try it on.
25:20He's going to leave me, I know he is.
25:23I can't bear the thought of being without him.
25:26Oh, Philip.
25:29Philip.
25:33Sometimes I get so lonely I feel I'm going mad.
25:38She always thought she could get what she wanted.
25:44But that didn't wash with me.
25:49I think you'd better go back to bed.
25:57So you see, when I said I didn't like her, I wasn't telling Phibbs.
26:03No.
26:06Merci, Monsieur.
26:14Actually...
26:19it's not quite true.
26:22Monsieur Blake, are you all right?
26:26It's all such a mess.
26:29Always has been.
26:31Ever since we were children, and she was...
26:34always ready with some snide remark.
26:41Amuse and I...
26:44we...
26:48we were true friends.
26:52She couldn't stand it.
26:56He meant everything to me.
27:01Everything.
27:09Meredith knew, I think.
27:13Caroline suspected.
27:16Nothing she could say changed anything.
27:21It's Amuse, isn't it?
27:23Still Amuse.
27:25You just can't get him out of your head.
27:29Do you have any idea how pathetic you are?
27:35It just made me hate her all the more.
27:45Oh...
27:52I...
27:56I trust you'll keep this to yourself.
28:00Of course.
28:05Not that I care much, anyway.
28:15It's amazing.
28:38How kind of you to come.
28:41Do you think we could get on with the business at hand?
28:45Indeed, monsieur, I was about to suggest the very same.
28:55Et alors? Where to begin, hein?
29:00As you know, it was my purpose to discover the truth about the murder of Amuse Gray.
29:04We all know the truth.
29:06Yes, indeed, monsieur Blake.
29:08But sometimes what we accept as the truth may not be the full story, n'est-ce pas?
29:14And sometimes...
29:17it may not be true at all.
29:22D'accord.
29:24This is what I learned.
29:29That at no time did Caroline Crail protest her innocence
29:32except in a letter to her daughter.
29:34That in the dock she showed no fear.
29:36That in a letter to her sister she expressed acquiescence in her fate.
29:40And in the opinion of everyone...
29:42Oh, pardon. With one exception most notable.
29:46Caroline Crail was guilty.
29:48Of course she was.
29:49Yes, but it was not for me to accept the verdict of others.
29:51No. It was necessary for me to examine the facts
29:54and to ensure that the psychology of this case
29:58accorded itself with them.
30:01No, there is no doubt whatever that she had the ample motive
30:03and much of the evidence it tells against her.
30:06The scent bottle discovered in her room.
30:08The poison that she admitted to stealing.
30:12The row with her husband in which she had threatened to kill him.
30:18None of this seems incorrect...
30:22psychologically.
30:24But then we come to something that does not make sense.
30:27Psychologically.
30:30But then we come to something that does not quite ring true.
30:35After Meredith Blake discovers the poison is missing
30:39he rows over here to discuss it with his brother.
30:42On their way up to the house they overhear a discussion
30:45between Caroline Crail and her husband
30:47on the vexed subject of Angela's being sent away to school.
30:51It's shameful behaviour, Amherst. You're being so hard on her.
30:54For God's sake!
30:55Discuss this after lunch.
30:57I'll see to her packing.
30:59Now that does strike me as odd.
31:01They have just had a row, most horrific,
31:03in which she has threatened to kill him
31:05and yet a short time later they're having an argument
31:07relatively trivial
31:09in which Monsieur Crail says he will see to Angela's packing.
31:12Now, does that not strike you as strange?
31:16Why should he do her packing?
31:18When there is her sister or the governess or the housekeeper?
31:21I did not know Monsieur Crail.
31:25But you know, somehow I cannot picture him
31:27folding neatly the skirts, the blouses or the underwear.
31:32Another thing that struck me as odd.
31:35Having just threatened to kill him
31:38Caroline Crail offers to bring to her husband a cold beer.
31:43A simulation.
31:45You think so.
31:47But if she intends to poison him
31:49he will be more intelligent to...
31:52What is the word?
31:56Spike.
31:58The supply of beer that he has in the water garden
32:00when no one was about.
32:03Hello, Caroline Crail brings to him the beer from the house.
32:08He drinks it. He says,
32:10everything tastes foul today.
32:13And after lunch he finds him dead.
32:15We know all this.
32:17Oui, bien sûr, but...
32:20Now I offer some information which is new.
32:26After asking Meredith Blake to call for a doctor,
32:28Mademoiselle Williams returns to the water garden.
32:36You actually saw her do that?
32:38Well, that settles it.
32:39Not necessarily.
32:40That is what I saw.
32:41It was only your word for it.
32:43I'm not accustomed to having my word doubted.
32:46And I do not doubt it, Mademoiselle Williams.
32:48I believe what you saw
32:50took place exactly as you say that it did.
32:52And because of what you saw,
32:55I know that Caroline Crail
32:57was not guilty.
33:00Well, how the hell did you work that out?
33:02Oh, do calm down.
33:03I will tell it to you.
33:05Mademoiselle Williams saw Caroline Crail
33:07wipe off the fingerprints from the beer bottle
33:09and impose the prints of her husband onto it.
33:12Onto the bottle, Mark.
33:16But the conain was in the glass, not the bottle.
33:18The police found no traces of it in the bottle.
33:20No conain had ever been in the bottle.
33:24And Caroline Crail, she did not know that.
33:26She, who has poisoned her husband,
33:29did not know how he had been poisoned.
33:31So why make it look like suicide?
33:33Because she knew who was the culprit.
33:36And would do anything
33:38rather than let that person be suspected.
33:43So who could it be?
33:47There was only one person
33:51whom she would be willing to protect
33:53at all costs.
33:58Mademoiselle Warren,
34:01I would like to read the letter your sister wrote to you.
34:04No.
34:06But Mademoiselle...
34:07I realize what you're suggesting.
34:08I deny it utterly.
34:10That letter was meant for my eyes only.
34:12Angela, please.
34:13No.
34:15For my mother's sake.
34:18Please.
34:33Merci, Mademoiselle.
34:37My darling, Angela.
34:40I want you to know that it is all all right.
34:45I have never lied to you,
34:46and I don't now when I say that I am happy.
34:51That I feel a peace that I've never known before.
34:54Don't look back and don't grieve for me.
34:57Live your life and succeed.
35:00It's all all right, my darling.
35:03It's all all right.
35:05It's all right.
35:07I'm going to Amias, and I'm happy.
35:10And you must be, too.
35:12One has to pay one's debts.
35:15Your loving sister, Caroline.
35:19It is a beautiful letter, no?
35:21And also quite remarkable,
35:23for it contains one omission that is most striking.
35:27There is no protestation of innocence.
35:31Because it was unnecessary.
35:32Oui, bien sûr,
35:33I thought her sister knew that she was innocent
35:34for the best of all possible reasons.
35:36And her only concern was to comfort, to reassure,
35:39and to avert the possibility of you having to confess.
35:43It's all all right, my darling.
35:45It's all all right.
35:49She wanted me to be happy. It's as simple as that.
35:51Yes, indeed.
35:52And so that the burden of your guilt may not be too great,
35:55she tells to you one must pay one's debts.
35:58And now, at last, she has the chance to repay the debt she owes you
36:01for the injury she caused you all those years before.
36:03And now the trial, the sentence, nothing can touch her.
36:07Because finally she felt redeemed.
36:10She felt, well, at peace with herself.
36:19And in the light of this,
36:23everything falls into place.
36:27Now look!
36:28I wish you were dead!
36:29When Angela threw the paperweight at Amias Crail,
36:32the memory that haunts her is brought to life most vividly.
36:37Then the next morning she sees Angela tampering with a beer.
36:40I'll take it if you don't mind.
36:47Which she then brings to Amias.
36:50It's foul. Everything's foul today.
36:53And after lunch,
36:56she finds him dead.
37:00Although she is convinced he has been poisoned,
37:02but who could have done it?
37:05And then suddenly it hits her.
37:11The resentment of Angela over the school,
37:13her disapproval of Elsa,
37:14her rage the night before, her tampering with a beer.
37:16And she remembers all so well
37:20her own violent emotions at that day.
37:27So, yes, Angela.
37:30It has to be.
37:34And the one thought
37:37that springs into her mind
37:42is how to protect her.
37:47So she wipes the fingerprints from the bottle,
37:50puts her husband's there instead to make it look like suicide,
37:53sends Angela out of the country as soon as possible,
37:56hoping against hope
37:59that she does not confess.
38:03But if I'd done it, of course I'd have confessed.
38:05I'd never have let Caroline suffer for what I'd done.
38:08But you did tamper with the beer, did you not?
38:11I can't remember that.
38:14Monsieur Blake.
38:16You say that you heard a noise in the laboratory on the morning of the murder?
38:19Yes. It was probably a cat.
38:21Or probably not.
38:23I would suggest, rather,
38:25it was someone who got in through the sash window
38:27and took something from the shelf.
38:29The Valerian.
38:31Oh, to put it on me as a string.
38:33I remember taking it.
38:35Oh, Angela.
38:37Was it really that day?
38:39Oui, mademoiselle.
38:41This is Valerian.
38:43The one that cats like?
38:44They can't get enough of it.
38:46And it was the description of it by Monsieur Blake
38:48which gave to you the idea?
38:50Yes.
38:52I remember getting out some beer and Caroline
38:55catching me before I could put the stuff in it.
38:58I never connected it with that particular day.
39:03She thought it was me.
39:13Look, I didn't kill him.
39:15I didn't kill him!
39:17Of course not, my dear.
39:19She's telling the truth.
39:21I see it quite clearly.
39:23Because I know very well who killed him.
39:25Don't you think you're milking it a bit, old man?
39:29It is the oldest story in the world, then.
39:32Two women and one man.
39:35What we have taken for granted
39:37is that the man would leave his wife for the other woman.
39:40But I would like to suggest to you now
39:42that he had no intention of doing anything of the kind.
39:45After all, the women he had fallen in love with in the past
39:48never expected too much from him.
39:50But this time, it was different.
39:53She was just a girl
39:56who saw the world in black and white.
40:00She had the passion for him
40:03and so assumed he had for her.
40:05She assumed without question it was her life.
40:08So naturally, he would leave his wife.
40:10He said he would.
40:12A little white lie, perhaps.
40:14All he really wanted was to finish the painting
40:16so he could be allowed to stand in the way.
40:18And when Elsa Greer let the cat from the bag,
40:21he was furious, but he was not concerned unduly.
40:25After all, Caroline had only to put up with things
40:28for a few days longer, then he would tell her the truth
40:31and she would believe him as so often before.
40:35And Elsa Greer, she would get over it sooner, no?
40:40But by that last evening,
40:43I believed that he was getting worried
40:45that Caroline Greer was taking things more seriously than usual.
40:50And by the following morning,
40:52I think that he had decided to come clean.
40:55You're the only woman in my life, Caro.
40:58You always were, you always will be, you know that.
41:00She is nothing to me.
41:03Nothing.
41:05She was, yes.
41:07She knocked me for six to start with, but now it's gone.
41:09It's over, I swear to God.
41:12She's just a kid.
41:15A passing fancy, that's all.
41:19You and your women.
41:22Someday I'll kill you, Hermes.
41:24Don't be an idiot.
41:26I swear to God I will.
41:36What he did not know
41:38was that Elsa Greer had overheard every word.
41:43And the account that she gave to me of the conversation
41:47was not the true one.
41:49You're very sure of yourself, aren't you, Monsieur Poirot?
41:52Of this Lady Dittisham?
41:54Yes, I am.
41:56When Amies Greer came down and said he wanted to get on,
41:59you said you had to go and change.
42:02Which you did,
42:04eventually.
42:08I wonder, do you realize how angry was Madame Creel with her husband
42:11for his treatment of you?
42:13How very touching.
42:15When Philip Blake encountered her coming out of the library...
42:18Good morning.
42:19It's too cruel, too cruel.
42:21...it was of you she was thinking.
42:25I wonder what she would have thought
42:27had she known that at that very moment
42:30you were in her room preparing to murder her husband
42:34and put the blame on her.
42:38You see, something else that I am sure of, Lady Dittisham,
42:41is that in the laboratory on the previous afternoon
42:44you would have seen Caroline Creel steal the poison.
42:47Monsieur Blake had his back to the room while he was talking to you,
42:51so it was perfectly possible for you to see her,
42:54the only person who could do so.
42:57Sorry, Mary. Such a fascinating collection.
43:00And once you had the poison,
43:03you went to join Amies in the garden,
43:07poured him some beer...
43:14To my Mona Lisa.
43:16...and he tossed it back in his usual manner.
43:20My darling Amies.
43:22As he painted, you watched and watched,
43:25waiting for the poison to take its effect.
43:28A short time later, you went to fetch a shawl,
43:31and Caroline Creel again took the opportunity
43:34to confront her husband on your behalf.
43:36It's shameful behaviour, Amies. You're being so hard on her.
43:39For God's sake!
43:41It's all settled. I'll send her packing.
43:43And it was this that the Blake brothers misheard
43:46on their way up from the jetty.
43:48An error that is understandable, n'est pas.
43:51You then returned with the shawl,
43:54and then Caroline Creel, she played straight into your hands,
43:57for she brought to her husband a bottle of cold beer.
44:01Ugh! Tastes foul. Everything tastes foul today.
44:06We suggest that he had tasted something else unpleasant
44:10before the beer that Caroline Creel had brought to him.
44:13And so you sat and posed and chatted
44:18and waved to Meredith Blake.
44:20Oh, you played your part beautifully.
44:22Bloody rheumatism.
44:24While Amies Creel painted on and on until his limbs failed
44:29and his speech thickened and he lay sprawled there on the bench
44:32helpless with his mind still clear.
44:36And when Meredith Blake appeared from the shade of the path
44:39into the sunlit garden, he could not see clearly.
44:42Only his friend, turning slowly around,
44:46unable to convey to him the fact
44:49that he was in the grip of a paralysis that was fatal.
44:53En route to the house, you crushed the pipette underfoot,
44:56the traces of which the police later found.
45:00And then went to lunch,
45:03leaving Amies Creel to his fate.
45:13Thank you, Monsieur Poirot.
45:16Mademoiselle.
45:43Amies dead.
45:46Caroline hanged.
45:50After all these years...
45:54After all these years...
46:00SHE PANTS
46:12You're very clever, aren't you?
46:16I hope you don't expect me to confess.
46:21So what are you going to do?
46:23I shall do what I can to induce the appropriate authorities
46:26to grant to Caroline Creel the posthumous free pardon.
46:30And me?
46:32What are you going to do about me?
46:35I shall lay my conclusions before the necessary people.
46:39If they decide that there is a case against you, they may act.
46:43But it is my opinion...
46:48..that the evidence is not sufficient.
46:51Inferences only, eh?
46:55Not facts.
46:57Moreover, I believe they would not be anxious
46:59to proceed against a...
47:03..person in your position.
47:06When I saw Caroline take the conneine,
47:08I thought she meant to kill herself.
47:11But the next morning, when I overheard them talking about me, I...
47:17..I loved him.
47:20And he was just stringing me along.
47:24And she felt sorry for me.
47:27I watched him die, Monsieur Poirot.
47:30And I never felt more alive.
47:33But what I didn't understand was that I was killing myself.
47:38It was as if they hadn't died at all.
47:42But I had.
47:45I died, Monsieur Poirot.
47:49I died, Monsieur Poirot.
48:11Elsa!
48:19Come on, then, Lucy.
48:22Shoot me.
48:24You know you want to.
48:26Do not listen to her, mademoiselle.
48:31That's right.
48:36Just pull the trigger.
48:41If you do, she will have won.
48:45Come on, do it.
48:48You're not afraid, are you?
48:50You kill her, you kill yourself.
48:53Just one little squeeze, that's all it takes.
48:56Spare her, mademoiselle.
48:58And justice may still be done.
49:03Lucy, shoot me.
49:18Shoot me.
49:48THE END
50:18THE END
50:48THE END
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