An American professor of mathematical probability, Luke Williams, meets an old lady Lavinia Fullerton on a train. She tells him about an uncanny string of deaths in her village and even predicts the next one.
Bill Bixby as Prof. Luke Williams
Lesley-Anne Down as Bridget Conway
Olivia de Havilland as Honoria Waynflete
Helen Hayes as Lavinia Fullerton
Patrick Allen as Maj. Horton
Shane Briant as Dr Thomas
Freddie Jones as Constable Reed
Leigh Lawson as Jimmy Lorrimer
Jonathan Pryce as Mr Ellsworthy
Ivor Roberts as Vicar (see Alfred Wake)
Trevor T. Smith as Rivers
Anthony Valentine as Abbot
Timothy West as Lord Gordon Easterfield
Carol MacReady as Mrs Pierce
Diana Goodman as Rose Humbleby
Frederick Wolfe as Avery
Patrick Wright as Attendant
Bill Bixby as Prof. Luke Williams
Lesley-Anne Down as Bridget Conway
Olivia de Havilland as Honoria Waynflete
Helen Hayes as Lavinia Fullerton
Patrick Allen as Maj. Horton
Shane Briant as Dr Thomas
Freddie Jones as Constable Reed
Leigh Lawson as Jimmy Lorrimer
Jonathan Pryce as Mr Ellsworthy
Ivor Roberts as Vicar (see Alfred Wake)
Trevor T. Smith as Rivers
Anthony Valentine as Abbot
Timothy West as Lord Gordon Easterfield
Carol MacReady as Mrs Pierce
Diana Goodman as Rose Humbleby
Frederick Wolfe as Avery
Patrick Wright as Attendant
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00:06:11Um, Miss Fullerton, about this murder business...
00:06:15You know, at first I feared you didn't believe me.
00:06:18Well, the thing of it in terms of...
00:06:21Well, probability.
00:06:23Now, it'd be pretty tough for someone to try and get away with all those murders.
00:06:27Oh, forgive me, Professor, but that's where you're in error.
00:06:30You see, the person in question is just the last person anyone would suspect.
00:06:35And so long as no one suspects you, murder is easy.
00:06:48Hey!
00:06:52Ha-ha!
00:06:54Welcome to London.
00:06:56Jimmy, how are you? Did you see those derby results?
00:06:58Did I see them?
00:07:00I already have a computer lined up so that you can pick me out a winner during the Oscar meeting.
00:07:04No, no, no, not me. No, this is my first vacation in years.
00:07:07I have no intention of sitting in a computer room and doing the same thing...
00:07:12Oh, shit.
00:07:16Just have a look...
00:07:18Because, um...
00:07:20SCREAMING
00:07:22SCREAMING
00:07:24SCREAMING
00:07:26SCREAMING
00:07:28SCREAMING
00:07:45I'm sorry your Miss Fullerton got herself applied to the pavement like that,
00:07:49and I really do think it's terribly decent of you to want to go to the funeral,
00:07:53but I have lined up a couple of absolute beauties.
00:07:57One's got a yacht, and I thought, as you're no longer involved with Nancy...
00:08:01Yeah, but Jimmy, do you know why I am no longer involved with Nancy?
00:08:04Because Nancy said to me I was more involved with my theories than I was with her,
00:08:10and a number of other ladies have said the same thing.
00:08:12That's why you want to go to the funeral?
00:08:14It's just that this lady got through to me, and I'm very curious about Dr. Humblebee.
00:08:18Jimmy, look, a lady is going to Scotland Yard.
00:08:21She is going to identify a murderer, and then she is killed.
00:08:25Now that defies the theory of probability.
00:08:27Luke, you can't believe her story.
00:08:30This country is teeming with these dotty oldeers full of direst imaginings.
00:08:34They're a type.
00:08:36Stout shoes, capacious handbag, getting warm.
00:08:39Probably had a budgerigar as well, or a cat.
00:08:43Walkie-talkie. I rest my case.
00:08:55Oh, all right, I'll take you to your funeral at Witchwood then,
00:08:58but I shall definitely expect you to come up with the gold cup winner at the Royal Ascot for me.
00:09:12The beginning and the end.
00:09:14I will give unto him that is athirst to the fountain of the water of life freely.
00:09:19He that overcometh shall inherit all things.
00:09:23I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
00:09:31And so, the time has come for us to say our last goodbye to our dear friend, Vivinia Fullerton.
00:09:39And indeed, you have all been good friends to her.
00:09:43Mr. Abbott, who served her well as a legal advisor for many years.
00:09:49Major Horton.
00:09:51And you are remembering today, I know, how faithfully Miss Fullerton attended your wife in her last lunas.
00:10:02Mr. Ellsworthy.
00:10:07Mr. Ellsworthy.
00:10:11And Miss Wainfleet, of course.
00:10:14Honoria, how well I remember you and Lavinia as young ladies.
00:10:19With Clarence Humbleby.
00:10:23With your father too, dear.
00:10:28God rest his soul.
00:10:35Ah, yes, certainly, of course.
00:10:37Lord Easterfield, always a fine friend to all, I'm sure.
00:10:44Hey, Jimmy, will you slow down? I want to talk to them.
00:10:47Come on, that old snob's gaining on us.
00:10:49No, no, I haven't.
00:10:50Mr. Lorimer.
00:10:52Lord Easterfield.
00:10:53There was you at the funeral.
00:10:55Lady Barbara not with you? How is she?
00:10:57Mama's very well.
00:10:58Splendid. Well, come along to tea.
00:11:00Oh, don't think that's possible.
00:11:03Nonsense, of course it's possible. It's perfectly possible.
00:11:05It's just a matter of time.
00:11:07It's just a matter of time.
00:11:09It's just a matter of time.
00:11:11Oh, don't think that's possible.
00:11:13Nonsense, of course it's possible. It's perfectly possible.
00:11:15I'll only just lift up the rope.
00:11:16Gordon, dear.
00:11:17Really, you mustn't insist.
00:11:19I'm Bridget Conway, Lord Easterfield's secretary.
00:11:22Jimmy Lorimer.
00:11:23And Luke Williams.
00:11:27Bridget, Mr. Lorimer's coming to tea.
00:11:29Gordon, please.
00:11:31I gather Miss Fullerton was a friend.
00:11:34No, actually, we came to see somebody.
00:11:36That's right.
00:11:37A duty call for Mama, really.
00:11:39An old acquaintance of hers.
00:11:40A fellow called Humblebee.
00:11:42Dr. Humblebee.
00:11:44Oh, dear.
00:11:46Well, you'll have to look there.
00:11:48Humblebee's dead.
00:11:52And I feel certain that Dr. Humblebee will be next.
00:12:06Now, come on.
00:12:07I'm expert on probability,
00:12:09so don't tell me that Humblebee just happened to drop dead right on schedule.
00:12:13I'm not leaving till I find out what's going on around here.
00:12:16Oh, very well.
00:12:18But you can't simply just waltz into a pokey little English village
00:12:21and start asking questions all round.
00:12:23You'll stick out a mile.
00:12:26We'll just have to try and think of some plausible reason for your being here.
00:12:30But don't expect me to stay.
00:12:40I knew you'd come, after all.
00:12:42Tang dynasty, I believe.
00:12:44Aren't they all?
00:12:55Well, it's too bad about Dr. Humblebee.
00:12:58Well, Humblebee was a muddle-headed old fool.
00:13:00That means he disagreed with Gordon.
00:13:03Well, he would have posed me on the question of our water supply
00:13:07if only he'd taken the trouble to read my editorials on the subject.
00:13:10But no, stubborn as a mule.
00:13:12Now, Gordon, I'm sure we're all very sorry he's dead.
00:13:16Well, you have no reason to grieve at any rate, my dear.
00:13:19But you can't oppose the will of Providence.
00:13:22Yes, old Humblebee gets a mere scratch, and within three days he's dead.
00:13:26I expect it had less to do with Providence than with blood poisoning.
00:13:29He simply neglected his condition.
00:13:31That's all, as doctors often do, oddly enough.
00:13:34I can't say any more.
00:13:36Couldn't bear Lady Barbara to think ill of me.
00:13:38Actually, Mama hardly knew Dr. Humblebee.
00:13:41It was Luke that was so eager to come to Witchwood, wasn't it, Luke?
00:13:46Was it really?
00:13:48I must say, you don't look like our usual witchcraft enthusiast.
00:13:53We get so few Americans.
00:13:56Well, you've come to the right place for it.
00:13:59Of course, I think all this witchcraft business is rather absurd.
00:14:02How did you know that I was here to study witchcraft?
00:14:05What else could induce anyone to come to Witchwood?
00:14:09Oh, but Luke's thrilled.
00:14:11Always been keen on the stuff.
00:14:13Doing a book on...
00:14:15How's it go, Luke? About death, anyway.
00:14:17Oh!
00:14:19Ah, well...
00:14:21Ancient burial customs.
00:14:23Of course, we were going to go on to Stonehenge for the Druid Festival,
00:14:27but now I'm not certain.
00:14:29Perhaps one should tarry.
00:14:31I trust there are comfortable lodgings in the village?
00:14:34Lodgings? Nonsense. You'll stop here, of course.
00:14:36That's very handsome of you, Lord Easterfield, to take Luke in like that.
00:14:40I shall be quite envious.
00:14:42Would you mean that you're not staying here?
00:14:44Oh, Luke, don't forget about Ascot.
00:14:46Mama's got us places in the Royal Enclosure.
00:14:48The Royal Enclosure?
00:14:50I say, I don't suppose you...
00:14:52You see, Mama's having a little party afterwards.
00:14:54Jimmy, I can't stay here.
00:14:56No, anyway, so dreary, these parties.
00:14:58Round heads, elbowing one.
00:15:00My dear boy, of course he shall stay.
00:15:02He must stay.
00:15:04He'll stay.
00:15:11That was a very nice dinner.
00:15:15All right, Avery, I'll look up later.
00:15:17You're going up, Gordon?
00:15:19Yeah, I've got to review the article assignments,
00:15:21but sure, Mr...
00:15:23Mr...
00:15:28Gordon's so serious about his work.
00:15:32He owns a few weekly newspapers.
00:15:35Well, he seems to know what he's doing.
00:15:38Oh, yes.
00:15:40One's not made a lord for nothing, you know.
00:15:43He really is a man of a great many gifts.
00:15:49Except, perhaps, in the aesthetics department.
00:15:52Hmm.
00:15:54It's no accounting for taste, is there?
00:15:56Well, they're all rather interesting.
00:15:58Bominable is more like it.
00:16:02But Gordon will redecorate his renovation of the whole place,
00:16:05bit by bit, since he took it over from my family.
00:16:08You don't mind?
00:16:10Would it matter?
00:16:12Anyway, it was a long time ago.
00:16:22They're Gordon's.
00:16:25Perhaps they'll do till your friend sends your things.
00:16:27Oh, oh, sure, it's fine.
00:16:32I like the room.
00:16:34Used to be mine.
00:16:37I'm down the hall now.
00:16:39Oh, then you do live here.
00:16:41I mean, you're a secretarian.
00:16:44And his fiancée as well.
00:16:47Ah.
00:16:50And now you're wondering if it's usual
00:16:52to live in the house of one's fiancée.
00:16:55I'm sorry.
00:16:57I have a big mouth.
00:17:00I'm afraid you'll be on your own tomorrow.
00:17:02Gordon and I leave early for London.
00:17:22Good night.
00:17:52Good night.
00:18:16And so long as no one suspects you,
00:18:19murder is easy.
00:18:22It's not.
00:18:46What the hell are you doing?
00:18:48Hop in.
00:18:49No thanks. I sort of like being alive.
00:18:51I never have accidents.
00:18:54Come on.
00:19:02Decided to stay and help.
00:19:04How's the research coming?
00:19:06I was just in the village and I learned something.
00:19:08Village folk are suspicious of strangers.
00:19:11That's why you need my help.
00:19:13I know we'll simply say you're my cousin.
00:19:16All right?
00:19:18Oh, please, I don't want to bore you with all this.
00:19:20I expect to be bored.
00:19:22It's de rigueur. I am inclining to be lady of the manor.
00:19:25I gather there have been several funerals lately.
00:19:28Yes, it is rather odd, so many accidents.
00:19:31Let's see, there was Harry Carter.
00:19:33He was drowned in the river, owned the pub.
00:19:36Naturally, Gordon said he deserved it
00:19:38for being not only a drunk, but a socialist.
00:19:42And Tommy Pierce fell out of a window.
00:19:44And Dr Humbleby?
00:19:46That's it, dying from a scratch.
00:19:49Of course, Miss Fullerton.
00:19:51Another accident.
00:19:53Perhaps she doesn't count as she was killed in London.
00:19:56By a reckless driver.
00:20:09What are we doing back here? I thought you were going to help me.
00:20:12Really? I don't understand why you didn't come here in the first place.
00:20:16It's his own museum. A hobby.
00:20:19Miss Wainfleet, the curator, knows absolutely everything.
00:20:25Hello.
00:20:27Miss Wainfleet.
00:20:29Miss Wainfleet.
00:20:31I brought you Luke Williams, a sort of cousin of mine.
00:20:36Oh. Oh, yes.
00:20:38I saw you at poor Lavinia's funeral, didn't I?
00:20:41I got a dreadful cold.
00:20:43Caught it from my housemaid, Amy.
00:20:45You really should take care of that.
00:20:47I know, but I wanted to take care of this new exhibit instead.
00:20:51Though I can't see what Lord Easterfield had in mind.
00:20:55But he's so keen on modernising.
00:21:00He must have brought these things from that laboratory he visited.
00:21:04It made me quite shiver just to hear him describe it.
00:21:08All those deadly germs and cultures.
00:21:11Luke, remember I mentioned about Tommy Pierce?
00:21:15Yes.
00:21:17Well, this is the window he fell from while cleaning it.
00:21:24Luke is doing a book on death rites or something.
00:21:27Witchcraft, anyway, and I thought you might be able to help him.
00:21:30But how intriguing. Yes, we've quite a history that way.
00:21:34Yes, we've quite a history that way.
00:21:36Goes back to pre-Roman times.
00:21:38Of course, our most famous witch was actually a warlock.
00:21:43Oh, what was her name?
00:21:45It was Harold, I think.
00:21:49Miss Wainfleet, you should be home in bed.
00:21:52Don't you agree, Luke?
00:21:54Yes, absolutely. This can wait.
00:21:57Yes, Tommy fell from that window onto the flagstones there.
00:22:02Quite horrible. And you found him?
00:22:04No, it was Mr Abbott, the solicitor.
00:22:06We'd all gone off to the charity bazaar.
00:22:09Remember, Bridget?
00:22:11Poor Tommy. I'm sorry to say that no one liked him very much.
00:22:15He was an infuriating little snoop.
00:22:18I'm sure it was very good of Lord Easterby to find him.
00:22:22I'm sure it was very good of Lord Easterfield to keep him on
00:22:26after Tommy was so impertinent to him.
00:22:28Well, you know Gordon.
00:22:30Such a pity. Lord Easterfield's kindness turning into tragedy like that.
00:22:45You stay, Vinty.
00:22:53Amy!
00:22:57Amy!
00:22:59Where is that girl?
00:23:01I'll go.
00:23:03Amy, we're wanting tea.
00:23:05I'm afraid my housemaid is quite a lazy girl.
00:23:08Wasn't even up this morning when I left.
00:23:12You would love to get at my little birds.
00:23:16Amy, you wonky pooh.
00:23:19Wonky pooh?
00:23:21Yes. Lavinia asked me to watch him the day she went to London.
00:23:26He had a bad infection.
00:23:28I can't find Amy anywhere.
00:23:32Her old tricks again. Gordon gave her no end of lectures about staying up late.
00:23:38You're sure she came home?
00:23:40Oh, yes. She was awakened by a noise very late.
00:23:46She must be in there.
00:23:52There.
00:24:03It's that one there.
00:24:05The little skylight. That's it.
00:24:11Oh, dear. I do hope she's all right.
00:24:22Perhaps she did it on purpose.
00:24:24She was awfully torn up about some love affair a while back.
00:24:29Come, you know, Amy. Always several men on a string.
00:24:33In fact, she's just broken off with Mr. Ellsworthy.
00:24:36Curious. No sign of anything.
00:24:44I'm sure she's in there.
00:24:46No sign of anything.
00:24:51Could you not touch anything, sir?
00:24:56It's only a cough mixture. I prescribed it myself.
00:25:05Don't suppose you noticed the...
00:25:09needle marks on her arm, Dr. Thomas?
00:25:12I did manage to notice them. Thank you very much, Constable Reed.
00:25:15I put them there myself.
00:25:17Amy's cold would linger, and I thought she might be run down.
00:25:21Took a blood sample.
00:25:23But there must be a half dozen marks on there, sir.
00:25:26Quite. Amy had what's commonly called floating veins.
00:25:29Always takes several tries to insert the needle properly in such cases.
00:25:34Embarrassing for you, sir. All that stabbing about.
00:25:39Still, we don't know that she didn't make one of those marks herself, do we?
00:25:44What are you suggesting, Constable?
00:25:46Drugs, miss. It's a common problem these days.
00:25:49Amy?
00:25:51Really, Constable, I'm something of an expert on narcotics.
00:25:55If Amy were an addict, I believe I'd have known.
00:25:58Always the first time, eh?
00:26:02Now, Miss Wainfleet, I understand she frequented rock concerts in London.
00:26:07Ah, well, that's proof positive, isn't it? Rock concerts.
00:26:11Yes, miss.
00:26:13Mustn't touch things.
00:26:15How very odd. So white.
00:26:18Not at all a flattering shade for Amy.
00:26:34Care to have a look, sir?
00:26:42Heroin.
00:26:46Dreadful business, these drugs.
00:26:48Still, I expect it's just routine for you, isn't it, sir?
00:26:52You being an American.
00:26:59Love your squad car.
00:27:02No wonder.
00:27:04What's the probability of five people dying suddenly in a town of this size?
00:27:09Six, counting Amy.
00:27:11And I wonder what all this has to do with your study on witchcraft.
00:27:16I want a straight answer, Luke.
00:27:18Why did you really come here?
00:27:24Heal.
00:27:27Heal.
00:27:29Heal. Heal Nero.
00:27:34Heal. Heal Nero.
00:27:44You must be joking. I mean, who would want to murder all those people?
00:27:48I don't know, but Miss Fullerton did, and that is why she's dead.
00:27:52She said the guy was crazy.
00:27:54Perhaps it was one of your warlocks at work.
00:27:56All right, all right. How was I to know that warlocks were male witches?
00:28:00Let's hope that Miss Waynefleet is not as sharp as you are.
00:28:03She's sharp enough to be suspicious about Amy, anyway.
00:28:07So what are we saying?
00:28:09That some man doped Amy and then granted the contract to make it appear as if she overdosed?
00:28:16How did he get into the room? The door was locked from the inside.
00:28:19Not any fairly strong man.
00:28:21Wait, wait, wait.
00:28:23Wait, wait.
00:28:25Amy knows the guy.
00:28:27She brings him home, he kills her.
00:28:29He leaves the compact and then he goes out the window.
00:28:35Hmm. Better.
00:28:37But why the compact?
00:28:40Why not a syringe?
00:28:44Careful.
00:28:46Careful.
00:28:48We already lost Harry Carter off this bridge.
00:28:52Unless he was pushed.
00:28:55Oh, this whole thing is so bizarre.
00:28:59I've lived all my life here.
00:29:01If there really is a killer and he really is mad, then I should have some idea.
00:29:06Bridget, there is a killer.
00:29:08And if we don't do something, he's going to go right on killing.
00:29:16What?
00:29:18Of course.
00:29:19What?
00:29:20Come on, Luke.
00:29:21What?
00:29:22Come on.
00:29:24Witchcraft?
00:29:26No, no. I have a few amulets and such for the tourists, of course.
00:29:30Hmm. Interesting, Mr. Ellsworthy.
00:29:33Yes, yes. I've just got in a few oriental things.
00:29:37Perhaps you'd be good enough to tell his Lordship, Miss Conway.
00:29:40I shall.
00:29:42What is that?
00:29:44It's a bong, used for smoking hash.
00:29:47You may be the only selling witch who would know that.
00:29:50This one's quite old. It's possibly 19th century.
00:29:53Must have been the sort of affair that Coleridge would have used.
00:29:56No, no. Coleridge used opium.
00:29:58Very different sort of thing to hashish.
00:30:02Xanadu, you know.
00:30:05Divine madman, Coleridge, thanks to opium.
00:30:09Sanity is such a bore, don't you think?
00:30:13I mean, it takes a touch of madness to see life
00:30:16through a new and entrancing angle.
00:30:22At least so one imagines.
00:30:24I know very little about the artistic temperament.
00:30:28Oh, you're too modest, Mr. Ellsworthy.
00:30:31Those sketches you did of Amy Gibbs were really very good.
00:30:38Yes, well, Amy would make a very pretty subject for anyone.
00:30:42You think so?
00:30:44I've always found her rather common.
00:30:47Certainly not the sort to whom a man would want to lose his heart.
00:30:51She'd be sure to break it, wouldn't she?
00:30:54Yes, yes, I suppose that's so.
00:30:57Bridget, what do you think they're saying about poor Amy?
00:31:00After all, she's dead.
00:31:03Dead?
00:31:05He was in love with Amy,
00:31:07and he knows enough about dope to kill someone with it.
00:31:10And he's not very well liked.
00:31:13And that's all I know about Ellsworthy,
00:31:15except that he's generally pretty weird.
00:31:17Oh, that's brilliant, Professor Williams.
00:31:19They're all pretty weird, except Bridget.
00:31:22Okay, now let's look at the victim for a minute.
00:31:25Amy. She was young and pretty.
00:31:28She was a man chaser.
00:31:30She was unreliable.
00:31:32Bridget said she worked here until Easterfield got in a hassle with her.
00:31:37Wait a minute.
00:31:41Wait a minute.
00:31:43What about Easterfield?
00:31:47He also had a hassle with Dr. Humblebee?
00:31:50And Tommy?
00:31:55No. No, no. It's just too improbable.
00:32:01Oh, come on. Think.
00:32:06Gotta do better than this.
00:32:08People are getting killed.
00:32:18This way, please.
00:32:36This way.
00:33:06This way.
00:33:28Oh, Mr. Williams! Oh, how frightful!
00:33:31Oh, I must be mad!
00:33:33I saw you there in the window, and I took it in.
00:33:35I said you were going to fall.
00:33:37It's all right.
00:33:38Oh, you must think me an imbecile.
00:33:39That's all right.
00:33:40You're much stronger than you look.
00:33:41Miss Whitley, please, please sit down.
00:33:44Don't cry.
00:33:44Oh, no, I shan't.
00:33:47I've seen it so often in my mind, you know.
00:33:49Tommy going over, and with Amy and everything.
00:33:56Oh, dear.
00:33:57It's all right.
00:33:58Well, oh, you've come about your research, of course.
00:34:04And I do have some things for you.
00:34:08Miss Whitley, we have to talk.
00:34:15Poor Lavinia.
00:34:18Did she say who the killer is?
00:34:22No, no, she didn't.
00:34:24But I think you have some idea.
00:34:28Miss Whitley, the day Miss Fullerton was killed,
00:34:32do you remember anything at all about that day?
00:34:36Anything unusual?
00:34:37No.
00:34:39Well, let me think.
00:34:42Lavinia came by with wonky prude, asked me to watch him.
00:34:46And of course, I agreed, as I was just by the fire
00:34:49all that day anyway.
00:34:50I was coming down with this cold, you know.
00:34:52And Amy was in bed with her cold.
00:34:54Oh, yes.
00:34:56Dr. Humbleby came by to look in on her in the late afternoon.
00:34:59Dr. Humbleby, not Dr. Thomas?
00:35:01No, Dr. Thomas was away that day at the Derby, I believe.
00:35:05They sometimes treated one another's patients.
00:35:08And Clarence, Dr. Humbleby, you know,
00:35:10he said, might as well have a look at that ear of wonky
00:35:14prude as well.
00:35:15That was like him.
00:35:17Such a nice man.
00:35:18Oh, dear.
00:35:20That must have been the last time I ever saw him alive.
00:35:26Well, should you decide to tell me who you suspect?
00:35:32Yes.
00:35:33I'll think on it.
00:35:35And thank you for coming to me.
00:35:37It's a relief to know it isn't just me, that I'm not crazy
00:35:42or growing senile quite yet.
00:35:45Senile?
00:35:46No, I wouldn't worry about that for decades yet.
00:35:49Yes, it's I.
00:35:51Quite plain, even then.
00:35:53But youth is everything, isn't it?
00:35:56Who's the man?
00:35:57Wyatt Sculpton, you know.
00:35:59My family was so scandalized when we became engaged.
00:36:04You were engaged to Lord Easterfield?
00:36:08Long ago.
00:36:10Long before he was Lord Easterfield.
00:36:13Such a beautiful young man.
00:36:15Long before he was Lord Easterfield.
00:36:19Such a promising boy.
00:36:21I was so proud of his spirit, his determination.
00:36:29Age does things to people, Mr. Williams.
00:36:34Still, perhaps my family were wrong.
00:36:45Your things, sir.
00:37:03Thanks, Audrey.
00:37:13I'm a colleague in Greece, Uzo.
00:37:15Where is his lordship, by the way?
00:37:17Oh, he'll be in town very late putting his paper today.
00:37:21Gordon's a very hard worker, rather admirable, I think.
00:37:25In fact, he's away much of the time.
00:37:27Well, it must get kind of lonely.
00:37:32It's the price I pay for the freedom to do whatever I want.
00:37:36I wonder if it's worth it.
00:37:37Are you asking me?
00:37:38No, no, I've been asking myself that lately.
00:37:43You see, I'm kind of at the crossroads.
00:37:46I've spent my whole life in the academic world, and I love it.
00:37:49It's a safe retreat, and I get to do exciting and interesting work,
00:37:57and nobody bothers me.
00:37:58No hassles, no trivial details.
00:38:01And no human contact.
00:38:08Yes, well, that never used to bother me.
00:38:12Before, but there is this man in my department.
00:38:19His name is Harry Ludwig.
00:38:20He's about 50 years old.
00:38:22You say hi to him.
00:38:23He's stuck for an answer.
00:38:26But, Luke, that's him.
00:38:28It's not you.
00:38:29Well, not yet.
00:38:32In any case, I have been offered a job with a consulting firm in Washington.
00:38:39I have to confess, it offers some really exciting challenges,
00:38:43but I'd have to deal with people all the time.
00:38:50I mean, like the company and the government.
00:38:54No more nice, safe, theoretical stuff.
00:39:00And which will you choose?
00:39:03Supposedly, I'm on vacation in order to make up my mind,
00:39:07and so far I have done a pretty good job of avoiding it.
00:39:13Sometimes I think I'm doing a pretty good job of avoiding life altogether.
00:39:20Ash Manor is my retreat, just as the university is yours.
00:39:24No more gloom and doom.
00:39:25The probability theory would show that we will both survive.
00:39:29What's probability theory?
00:39:31Really a method of deciding which event is most likely
00:39:35under any given set of circumstances.
00:39:37For example, if you keep looking the way that you do,
00:39:43the probability is roughly 0.9,
00:39:47but I will forget you're someone else's fiancee.
00:39:52I see.
00:39:55In that case, we'd better change the circumstances.
00:40:06It is after 11.
00:40:11And they say sin becomes rampant after 11.
00:40:16Ouch!
00:40:17Yes, it was.
00:40:18Just over the line.
00:40:19Oh!
00:40:20Oh!
00:40:21Oh!
00:40:22Oh!
00:40:23Oh!
00:40:24Oh!
00:40:25Oh!
00:40:26Oh!
00:40:27Oh!
00:40:28Oh!
00:40:29Oh!
00:40:30Oh!
00:40:31Oh!
00:40:32Oh!
00:40:33Oh!
00:40:34Oh!
00:40:35Criminal insanity.
00:40:37That will be the verdict for one of your witches these days, Mr. Williams.
00:40:40You think so, Mr. Outer?
00:40:41Well, of course, legal insanity is difficult to define.
00:40:46But even the most dangerous lunatic may seem just like the next bird.
00:40:49Oh, he may feel that he has lots of enemies, but who does and what?
00:40:53Interesting how easy it can be to murder a person, if you're clever.
00:40:58You're probably experienced in that.
00:41:00Oh, no, no, no.
00:41:01I'm afraid my work's just the dull stuff.
00:41:04Wills.
00:41:05Investments.
00:41:06Anyway, there's been no murders around here for as long as anyone remembers.
00:41:10Have we, Richard?
00:41:11Unless someone finally finished off Tommy Pierce.
00:41:14Tommy?
00:41:15What a moron.
00:41:16Drive a person mad.
00:41:17Tommy the one that drowned?
00:41:18No, no, no, no, no.
00:41:19That was that idiot Harry Carter drowning in the river.
00:41:22That can't have been good for the water supply.
00:41:24Oh, I say, that's very good.
00:41:28Wish I'd thought of it.
00:41:31That's the old Humblebee's face if I'd told him that.
00:41:33Why Miss Humblebee?
00:41:36Happy you thought of that coming out.
00:41:38I insisted.
00:41:40She needs a diversion.
00:41:44Miss Humblebee, my condolences.
00:41:49Did you get the autopsy results, Dr. Thomas?
00:41:51Amy died of opium derivatives.
00:41:57Why did you do that?
00:41:58You gave him the set.
00:41:59Don't be absurd.
00:42:01My game simply went to pieces.
00:42:02It happens, you know.
00:42:03No, not like that.
00:42:04I mean, the first double fall of the day.
00:42:05Yes, that was rather good.
00:42:07You mean you admit it?
00:42:09Obvious, my dear Watson.
00:42:10Well, what the hell for?
00:42:11You're a good player.
00:42:12Equally obvious, I would have thought.
00:42:14Gordon hates losing.
00:42:15Well, terrific.
00:42:16Maybe I don't like it either.
00:42:19But then you're not my bread and butter.
00:42:21Come on, you're actually going to marry a creep like that for money?
00:42:24Oh, I'll earn my keep all right with Gordon.
00:42:26Yes, if you don't mind the job description.
00:42:31He'll forget to kiss me goodnight after a month.
00:42:36Surely you can see what a child he is.
00:42:38Yes, and what a cold-blooded gold digger you are.
00:42:41Well, it's better than being a hot-blooded fool.
00:42:44You think I don't know what it is to love a man.
00:42:46Well, let me tell you about my first fiancé, Johnny.
00:42:49I cared for him like hell and he threw me over
00:42:51for a widow with three chins
00:42:53and an income that makes Gordon look like a pauper.
00:42:57That sort of thing rather cures one of romance, don't you think?
00:43:00Yes, I guess it could.
00:43:02It did.
00:43:03Well, good.
00:43:04Then maybe it'll cure me because I was beginning to have
00:43:06some pretty romantic feelings about you.
00:43:09What?
00:43:12Oh, Bailey Luke, we've only just met.
00:43:16Why don't you grow up and behave like an adult?
00:43:19I am.
00:43:20And that's why I'm wrong for you
00:43:22since you're only hot for children like Easterfield.
00:43:24Hello, Tom Piazza.
00:43:29It must have been very hard on you when Mrs. Horton died.
00:43:32Yes.
00:43:34Smart people were kind.
00:43:36Then Bridget came every day toward the end.
00:43:39Brought down hothouse grapes from Easterfield.
00:43:42I was awfully sporting of Bridget.
00:43:44She was a good woman.
00:43:46She was a good woman.
00:43:48She was a good woman.
00:43:50She was a good woman.
00:43:53Bridget, swallowing her pride that way?
00:43:56Yes, she has plenty of that.
00:43:58Hmm.
00:43:59Well, my wife was a wonderful woman
00:44:01but she did snub Bridget terribly
00:44:03after her father lost his money.
00:44:05Poor Bridget's had rather a time of it.
00:44:07Expects you know being her cousin.
00:44:09Yes, well, she never said much about it.
00:44:11No, no, well, she wouldn't, would she?
00:44:13But I still say that idiot Humbleby
00:44:15was the cause of it all.
00:44:17Anyone could see Bridget's father was dying
00:44:19but Humbleby insisted he knew how to treat him.
00:44:21Humbleby was so mad with grief when he died.
00:44:23Augusta, see you, sir.
00:44:25Heel, heel, heel.
00:44:32Queenie, Augusta, see you, sir.
00:44:34Heel, heel, heel.
00:44:36I have to interview Tommy Pierce's mother.
00:44:38Can I buy you a drink?
00:44:40Oh, no.
00:44:42I'll not set foot in Harry Carter's place
00:44:44even if he is dead and gone to hell.
00:44:48I don't think it's right
00:44:50to treat Mr. Pierce like this.
00:44:52Not like he were a real gentry.
00:44:54Not like Miss Bridget or Miss Wainfleet.
00:44:56Didn't I hear something about
00:44:58what was it, Abbott and Amy Gibbs?
00:45:02Of course, I'm never one to gossip.
00:45:04I never have been but
00:45:06I always said that Amy
00:45:08had come to a bad end.
00:45:10Think how it broke poor Miss Bridget's heart.
00:45:12Amy stealing her Johnny away
00:45:14that she covered.
00:45:16And I'll admit
00:45:18it was naughty of Tommy
00:45:20laughing at Miss Bridget over it.
00:45:22But I think we'll all be happy
00:45:24to see her as Lady of the Manor.
00:45:26It's hers by right, after all.
00:45:28Yes, that's interesting.
00:45:30But, Mrs. Pierce, did I hear you say
00:45:32Amy stole Bridget's fiancé?
00:45:48I was hoping you were still awake
00:45:50so I could say that I'm sorry
00:45:52about this afternoon.
00:45:54Apology accepted.
00:45:58And I wanted to say
00:46:00I think you're making a great mistake
00:46:02going for Easterfield
00:46:04when you could have me.
00:46:06But there's no accounting for taste.
00:46:08And I think you're making a great mistake
00:46:10going for Easterfield
00:46:12when you could have me.
00:46:14But there's no accounting for taste.
00:46:16But there's no accounting for taste.
00:46:18And...
00:46:20I need your help.
00:46:22You idiot.
00:46:24I don't suppose
00:46:26any of this could have waited till morning.
00:46:28Oh, it could.
00:46:30But I wanted to test
00:46:32your reaction to stress.
00:46:36How am I doing?
00:46:40You passed.
00:46:42Now will you go somewhere with me tomorrow?
00:46:46I can do anything I want.
00:46:56Remember.
00:47:16But now he's got the wind up about all this,
00:47:18what's to stop him laying the blame on me?
00:47:20Oh, Rivers, really,
00:47:22you've blown the thing entirely out of proportion.
00:47:24Have I? Then you'll have no objection
00:47:26to me telling him then, will you?
00:47:28Now you know what a temper he has.
00:47:30He's after me all the time.
00:47:32I don't like being questioned.
00:47:34Rivers, really, it was nothing.
00:47:36You needn't concern yourself.
00:47:38But he has to be told.
00:47:40All right, Rivers, I'll tell him.
00:47:42But please be good enough to let me do it in my own way.
00:47:44I'll make it soon, miss.
00:47:46Or I can tell him myself.
00:47:48That would be very foolish, Rivers.
00:47:50Very foolish.
00:48:00You're certain that your friend Jimmy
00:48:02said to come here?
00:48:04Mm-hmm.
00:48:06You are so beautiful when you're perplexed.
00:48:08Come on.
00:48:15Luke, what are we doing here?
00:48:17Ah.
00:48:19We, my dear, are going to find out
00:48:21who the killer really is.
00:48:23You're joking.
00:48:25No, I'm not.
00:48:27We are going to get the help
00:48:29we really need.
00:48:31Now, if you will just sit down.
00:48:36After yesterday, I decided
00:48:38it's much too complicated
00:48:40for us to figure out by ourselves.
00:48:42So I am going to program
00:48:44everything we know about the murders
00:48:46into the computer, and it is going to tell us
00:48:48the name of the murderer.
00:48:52You are joking.
00:48:54Bridget,
00:48:56this is my bread and butter.
00:48:58It's just a question of relative probabilities
00:49:00if we program it properly.
00:49:02Now,
00:49:04here are the names
00:49:06of the six victims.
00:49:09What does it say?
00:49:11Well, it is asking
00:49:13how the victims were killed,
00:49:15and we don't know that
00:49:17in all cases.
00:49:22At least we know
00:49:24what killed them.
00:49:28Do you ever start to think
00:49:30how smart the killer must be?
00:49:32He killed every one of them
00:49:34in a different way.
00:49:36Terrifying.
00:49:40Motives.
00:49:42Now, that's a toughie.
00:49:44Better just input the classics for now
00:49:46and hope that we hit it.
00:49:52You know, lust, greed,
00:49:54fear.
00:49:56What else?
00:49:58Revenge.
00:50:02Ah.
00:50:06Opportunity.
00:50:08Opportunity.
00:50:10That means who was in the right place
00:50:12at the right time, I suppose.
00:50:14But there's no way to know that.
00:50:16Except in the case of Miss Fullerton.
00:50:18Would you agree
00:50:20that whoever killed Miss Fullerton
00:50:22probably killed all the others?
00:50:24Yes.
00:50:26But how do you know
00:50:28who could have killed her?
00:50:30Because she was killed
00:50:32on Derby Day.
00:50:34Because she was killed on Derby Day.
00:50:36And we now know
00:50:38who was absent from the village
00:50:40on that day.
00:50:44That's why you were asking
00:50:46everyone about the Derby.
00:50:48Oh, Luke, you are clever.
00:50:56Our leading candidates.
00:50:58First, Abbott, the attorney,
00:51:00a womanizer.
00:51:02Ellsworthy,
00:51:04probably the last person to see Amy alive.
00:51:06Major Horton,
00:51:08whose wife died mysteriously.
00:51:12And Dr. Thomas,
00:51:14who knows all about drugs.
00:51:16There must be others.
00:51:18Well, I did check up on a couple of other people.
00:51:22There's me, of course.
00:51:26I was in London that day, too.
00:51:28You mean with Easterfield?
00:51:30Sorry to disappoint you,
00:51:32but I know where Gordon was,
00:51:34but you don't know where I was.
00:51:36Bridget, I don't think you understand.
00:51:38I'm not keeping a list on everybody
00:51:40in Whitchwood, you know.
00:51:42Just those I have every reason to suspect.
00:51:44Thought perhaps
00:51:46you did suspect me.
00:51:48You said I was a
00:51:50cold-blooded gold digger.
00:51:52Why not a cold-blooded killer?
00:51:54Hey, I said I was
00:51:56sorry, and after last night...
00:51:58That's why I want you to be sure.
00:52:00I guess you think I'm playing
00:52:02some stupid little game or something.
00:52:04I happen to believe in this stuff,
00:52:06and I'm very damn good at it.
00:52:08I'm sorry. It just all
00:52:10seems so fantastic to me.
00:52:12No, no, no.
00:52:14You want your name in, I'll put your name in, okay?
00:52:28Now, we're ready.
00:52:30At least I am.
00:52:32Are you?
00:52:34For what?
00:52:36To find out who the killer is.
00:52:38Are you ready?
00:52:40Oh, Luke.
00:52:58Cheers.
00:53:02Boy, if you could have seen
00:53:04the look on her face
00:53:06when her name popped up on that computer.
00:53:10I thought Gordon was a child.
00:53:12Really, Luke,
00:53:14you have a most peculiar sense of humor.
00:53:16That'll teach you to make fun of my work.
00:53:18Why shouldn't I?
00:53:20After all that, your marvelous computer
00:53:22still couldn't come up with the name
00:53:24of the real killer.
00:53:26Luke.
00:53:30Am I to understand
00:53:32that I have put the entire
00:53:34resources of Oxford University
00:53:36at your disposal so that you can
00:53:38play a joke on this poor girl?
00:53:40It's not a joke, Jimmy.
00:53:44Do you mean to say Bridget's the murderer?
00:53:46I don't know anything for sure.
00:53:48I just know that I had some pretty good reasons
00:53:50for suspecting her, so I...
00:53:52I thought that if I...
00:53:54If I had her name
00:53:56flash on that screen,
00:53:58she'd come unglued,
00:54:00she'd tell me everything.
00:54:02I...
00:54:04I'm beginning to remember now
00:54:06why I don't get involved with people.
00:54:08Look here, old friend.
00:54:10You've got to give up
00:54:12all this sleuthing nonsense
00:54:14and go to the authorities.
00:54:16Jimmy.
00:54:18I'm in love with her.
00:54:24Well done.
00:54:28But if you know she's guilty...
00:54:30I don't know anything for sure.
00:54:32Right now it's all speculation.
00:54:34Yes, but what if she is?
00:54:36I don't know.
00:54:42But I am going to have a talk with the one woman
00:54:44who really knows the truth.
00:54:48PHONE RINGS
00:54:54Who is it?
00:54:56Miss Wainfield, it's Luke Williams.
00:55:06Oh, Mr. Williams.
00:55:08Someone tried to kill me.
00:55:10On my way home,
00:55:12I stopped to give those petunias
00:55:14a bit of water.
00:55:16I was simply standing here
00:55:18when this thing whizzed past my head
00:55:20from up there.
00:55:22I didn't dare touch it.
00:55:24You didn't tell anyone?
00:55:26No, I was so frightened
00:55:28I went straight home.
00:55:30Ellsworthy.
00:55:36Don't tell lies to me.
00:55:38You're ungrateful.
00:55:40You're fired.
00:55:42What's more, you're going to regret this.
00:55:44Don't worry, I'm off.
00:55:46And it's you who's going to regret this,
00:55:48you stupid idiot.
00:55:50Don't worry, I'm sorry you should have to witness
00:55:52such a disgraceful scene, but that man...
00:55:54Gordon, what on earth's happening?
00:55:56It's nothing, my dear.
00:55:58I've just dismissed Rivers.
00:56:00Rivers?
00:56:02Gordon, what's happened?
00:56:04What did he say to you?
00:56:06Nothing, my dear. That needn't be repeated.
00:56:08Just a pack of filthy lies.
00:56:10How dare he talk to me like that?
00:56:12Oh, Gordon, you really must try
00:56:14not to get upset.
00:56:16Something very serious shall happen to that young man.
00:56:18Do not interrupt my words.
00:56:20Yes, yes, Gordon, I'm sure of it.
00:56:26Oh, Luke!
00:56:28What is wrong with you?
00:56:30Nothing. Nothing is wrong anymore, and that's the wonderful part.
00:56:32I love you, and everything is okay now.
00:56:34Luke, will you wait a moment?
00:56:36You've got me so confused, I can't think.
00:56:38All right, all right.
00:56:40Just take one thing at a time.
00:56:42Number one is that I love you.
00:56:44And number two is that I've been absolutely wrong about everything.
00:56:46I really do know who the murderer is now.
00:56:50She knew? Miss Wainfleet knew?
00:56:52It doesn't matter, because I know now.
00:56:54It's Ellsworth.
00:56:56Ellsworth?
00:56:58Yes, yes. I will explain all of this to you later,
00:57:00but right now I have to see the constable.
00:57:02Luke, wait.
00:57:04Maybe you're wrong about Ellsworth.
00:57:06No, no.
00:57:08I know what I'm doing. May I borrow your car?
00:57:10Oh, I'd take care of Miss Wainfleet if I were you.
00:57:12She's a little shook up.
00:57:14She's a little shook up.
00:57:30You don't believe a word of it.
00:57:32Mr, uh...
00:57:34Williams, isn't it?
00:57:36Yeah.
00:57:38Well, Mr. Williams, I do appreciate your concern.
00:57:40And it's a colorful story.
00:57:42Heaven knows.
00:57:44But, you see, sir, here in England,
00:57:46we really do prefer
00:57:48something in the nature of
00:57:50solid evidence
00:57:52before we
00:57:54go about arresting people.
00:57:56Solid evidence?
00:57:58What do you call that?
00:58:00I saw it in Ellsworth's shop.
00:58:02Yeah, well, it certainly is, uh...
00:58:04certainly solid
00:58:06at any rate, isn't it, sir?
00:58:08And no end of fingerprints.
00:58:10I'll wage her.
00:58:12But how can you ignore what...
00:58:14Evidence, Mr. Williams.
00:58:16That's all I ask.
00:58:18Real evidence.
00:58:20Fuck!
00:58:38Fuck!
00:58:52I've come to tell the truth.
00:59:08I've come to tell the truth.
00:59:38I've come to tell the truth.
01:00:08I've come to tell the truth.
01:00:38I've come to tell the truth.
01:00:41Fuck!
01:01:07What are you doing here? I told you not to come!
01:01:09Oh, look, thank God you're all right. I saw Ellsworthy coming back, and I... I thought...
01:01:14Hey. Hey, it's all right. It's OK.
01:01:19It's all right. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:01:24Maybe you ought to go back inside.
01:01:26Oh, this is no time for jokes. I thought he might have killed you.
01:01:33If one, you know.
01:01:36What about one? What about one?
01:01:41Me? If you really want me.
01:01:44If I really want you...
01:01:46Luke, listen. If you knew what I've done, simply out of pride,
01:01:52I've let the past rule me as if it should be the world.
01:01:59I don't want to be Lady of the Manor, not really.
01:02:03I just want love.
01:02:06You've got that. Me.
01:02:15I know. I truly feel that.
01:02:22That's why I want to get right away from here before the past overwhelms me completely.
01:02:27Luke.
01:02:30Take me with you.
01:02:47But I want to go right away. You will come with me to talk to Gordon, won't you?
01:02:52You know what a temper he has. Of course I'll...
01:03:00The chauffeur.
01:03:15Dead. Struck down by divine wrath.
01:03:18A remarkable theory, Lord Easterfield.
01:03:21Well, the Lord blows in mysterious ways, you know.
01:03:24Does he indeed, sir?
01:03:26Well, how can you doubt it? Rivers abuses me, and what happens? Where is he now?
01:03:31Gordon, please come into the house with me.
01:03:38The word according to Easterfield.
01:03:40Yes.
01:03:41He's a riot, isn't he? Almost as funny as I am.
01:03:44It's too bad Rivers isn't alive to enjoy it.
01:03:47Oh, yes.
01:03:49Almost as funny as I am. It's too bad Rivers isn't alive to enjoy it.
01:03:54Oh, I take you quite serious now, sir.
01:03:57Quite serious indeed.
01:04:00Except on one point.
01:04:03Ellsworthy is not your man.
01:04:12But I saw Ellsworthy's hands. They were covered with blood.
01:04:16It was you who broke into his shop last night.
01:04:18I expect he'll be lodging a complaint against you once his hand clears up.
01:04:21He cut it, you know. Changing the tyre.
01:04:26Outside the witch's head inn.
01:04:30Plenty of witnesses to it.
01:04:34Then Ellsworthy couldn't have done it.
01:04:37This might be interesting to you, by the way.
01:04:39The C.I.D. tell me that the car that killed Miss Fullerton has now been identified.
01:04:43It was a large maroon car, chauffeur-driven.
01:04:47A man in the crowd phoned last night and gave the license number.
01:04:54He hadn't actually seen it, you understand.
01:04:57But the woman beside him had, so she gave him the number.
01:05:01Only he wasn't sure he had it right.
01:05:05Well, did he or didn't he?
01:05:10Did.
01:05:12But the chauffeur had an alibi, and the car belongs to one of the gentry, so that was that.
01:05:21However, however, sometimes it's difficult to see what's right under your nose.
01:05:29But you said the chauffeur had an alibi.
01:05:32On Derby Day he drove his charge to London, but then he was given the afternoon off.
01:05:38And when the car was returned, it had a damaged front bumper.
01:05:44How do you know all this?
01:05:45He was asked to fix the bumper on the sly, which, being a loyal sort, he did.
01:05:52And when he was questioned, he lied, being a loyal sort.
01:05:59But I don't see...
01:06:00Please, please, Mr. Williams, you're missing the best part.
01:06:06Well, despite his loyalty, he was dismissed.
01:06:10He came straight and told all.
01:06:13Poor bloke. He had no notion of any connection with Miss Fullerton's death.
01:06:18He thought the car had been in an accident which had gone unreported.
01:06:25Then it was...
01:06:35Be at the station at midday.
01:06:47Luke, what did he tell you?
01:06:49Nothing. Nothing you don't already know.
01:06:56Please believe I didn't really know.
01:06:59Not for certain.
01:07:01I kept hoping it wasn't Gordon.
01:07:05But it is.
01:07:08Why did you listen to your family? Why didn't you just marry him anyway?
01:07:11No, you don't understand.
01:07:13I would have defied them. I would have defied the world.
01:07:18Oh, it all sounds so absurd.
01:07:23You see, I had a little pet canary, Moonlight, and Gordon.
01:07:30Gordon couldn't bear it somehow that I could love anything else.
01:07:35Even a little bird.
01:07:37And one day, he just snatched him away from me...
01:07:42and wrung his neck right before my eyes.
01:07:48And that was when you broke off the engagement?
01:07:53I could never forget how he seemed to enjoy it.
01:07:59But the years passed, and I never saw him do anything like that again.
01:08:06Oh, he was always hot-tempered and proud, but...
01:08:12Then these accidents began happening.
01:08:16And he began to talk about divine justice and retribution.
01:08:21He raved on and on to me about how people had to be punished for their sins against him.
01:08:29That's what he said about Rivers.
01:08:31Oh, Mr. Williams, I haven't known what to do.
01:08:34I've thought a hundred times of trying to talk to Bridget, to warn her somehow.
01:08:40But you see how that would seem to her.
01:08:43Well, you don't have to worry about it anymore, because they're on to him now.
01:08:49And besides, Bridget has already decided to leave him.
01:08:52Leave him?
01:08:54Oh, heavens, we've got to get her away.
01:08:57Don't you see what he might do?
01:09:00I'll fall over if elsewhere they brought these days ago.
01:09:04I'll be most anxious to see them.
01:09:07There, lovely, isn't it?
01:09:10Now, where's the other one? There must have been a pair.
01:09:13Gordon, I feel so ashamed. You're taking the news so well.
01:09:16You've every right to be furious with me.
01:09:19Oh, isn't that a beauty?
01:09:21Perfect workmanship.
01:09:23And what an edge.
01:09:26Bridget.
01:09:28Oh, hello, Honoria.
01:09:31I expect you've heard.
01:09:33Bridget's decided to go off with Mr, um, this fellow here.
01:09:38So they won't be with us long.
01:09:40Lord Easterfield, I'd like to offer my apology, if you'll accept it.
01:09:43It wasn't my intention to take Bridget away from you.
01:09:46The fact of it is, we fell in love.
01:09:48Yes.
01:09:50Well, I only hope it is love you're after.
01:09:54And not the fortune that'll come to Bridget one day.
01:09:57Oh, Gordon, we've been all over that.
01:10:00I don't want your money.
01:10:02It's not your decision, Bridget.
01:10:05Oh, I know how they all sneer at me.
01:10:08Claim that I only prospered at your father's expense and I'll not have it.
01:10:12I had intended to prove them all liars by doing you the honour of marrying you
01:10:16as well as leaving you my estate.
01:10:20Come to that, my dear.
01:10:22May not be a problem anyway, since no doubt I'll outlive you.
01:10:26Both of you.
01:10:28Gordon!
01:10:29Listen, if you're threatening us...
01:10:31Threatening you?
01:10:33How absurd.
01:10:36It's nothing to do with me, you know.
01:10:38I'm only the instrument of our higher power.
01:10:41Gordon, please, don't start.
01:10:43It's happened every time.
01:10:45That wretched Pierce boy.
01:10:47Lydia, Carter, Humbleby, Amy, Rivers.
01:10:50All my enemies, cussed down and exterminated.
01:10:53But you understand, don't you, Enora?
01:10:55Of course, Gordon. Of course I understand.
01:10:58And I'm certain you're right.
01:11:00But you know, Gordon, dear, you've let yourself get upset.
01:11:03Upset? What nonsense!
01:11:05I'm feeling perfectly fit.
01:11:08It's amazing, isn't it?
01:11:11They all die.
01:11:16Come on, let's get out of here.
01:11:18I'll just get my bag and go home.
01:11:21Well, what are you going to do?
01:11:23Let him go on killing people? You can't protect him anymore?
01:11:26Gordon is childish.
01:11:28And he's pompous, and he certainly has a temper.
01:11:31But, Luke, deep down, he is harmless.
01:11:35I promise you, the man wouldn't hurt a fly.
01:11:37Oh, yeah? Well, he sure as hell would choke a canary.
01:11:40A canary?
01:11:41That's why Miss Wainfleet broke off their engagement.
01:11:43He killed her canary.
01:11:45She said that?
01:11:47Miss Wainfleet said that?
01:11:49Yes, she said that.
01:11:50And then there's also the car. Not that you didn't suspect that already.
01:11:53What about the car?
01:11:55Bridget.
01:11:56He ran down Miss Fullerton in the rolls.
01:11:59I don't believe that.
01:12:01A woman in the crowd saw the license number.
01:12:06I'm sorry.
01:12:08I don't mean to be rough with you.
01:12:10Look, I have to get to Constable Reed's office.
01:12:14The constable already knows about Gordon?
01:12:16Yes, now are you coming with me?
01:12:18Well, I need a little time to pull myself together.
01:12:31If I could meet you somewhere, at Miss Wainfleet's,
01:12:35I'll meet you there later.
01:12:38All right.
01:12:39Luke.
01:12:40Yeah.
01:12:42I hope the constable will be discreet about this.
01:12:46Well, it's obvious now that Gordon will do anything to avoid public humiliation.
01:12:52If Reed trots this out and makes a big show,
01:12:56Gordon might even kill himself rather than face it.
01:13:07I can hardly believe it.
01:13:10Gordon, a murderer.
01:13:12I felt certain too.
01:13:14But now that I've had time to reflect more calmly,
01:13:18well, do think just for a moment how cleverly it was all done.
01:13:25And whatever our feelings for Gordon,
01:13:28let us admit that he does not have the kind of devious intelligence
01:13:33it must have taken to manage all those murders.
01:13:38But it's pretty straightforward, isn't it?
01:13:41Take Cary Carter.
01:13:43He did laugh at Gordon and in public too.
01:13:46And shortly afterwards, he's drowned.
01:13:50And Tommy's case was similar.
01:13:53And poor Rivers killed at the very gates.
01:13:56Rather obvious.
01:13:58Perhaps too obvious.
01:14:00Almost perhaps as if a very cunning person
01:14:05were trying to make it seem that a less cunning person had done it.
01:14:11Why, Bridget, what's the matter?
01:14:14Nothing, I'm fine.
01:14:16Oh, dear, I've upset you.
01:14:20What about a nice walk?
01:14:23Do us both good.
01:14:29A walk?
01:14:31Yes, Luke won't be finished for a while yet.
01:14:36That should give me just enough time.
01:14:43Lord Easterfield looks guilty all right.
01:14:49But then perhaps that's precisely what someone is after.
01:14:53Someone will find it profitable to get Lord Easterfield out of the way,
01:14:57even to see him dead.
01:15:00If there were such a person,
01:15:03why would they kill all those people?
01:15:06Why not just kill Easterfield?
01:15:08Too risky.
01:15:10Especially if the person was someone close to Lord Easterfield.
01:15:17Well, then perhaps we should question Miss Bridget Conway.
01:15:21I'm sure she'll come up with some answers for us.
01:15:24No!
01:15:31You know, Miss Wynfleet,
01:15:34you may be on to something about Gordon and the murders.
01:15:39For some of them must have taken some quite brilliant planning,
01:15:44to say nothing of nerve.
01:15:46Yes, you do see.
01:15:48Take Amy, for example.
01:15:50She certainly wouldn't have let Gordon put a needle in her arm.
01:15:54Oh, but there are other ways to kill a person with heroin.
01:15:57I read up on it afterwards.
01:15:59Did you?
01:16:01How very thorough of you.
01:16:08And Bridget?
01:16:11Surely it can't have been a simple matter
01:16:14to induce blood poisoning in Dr Humbleby.
01:16:17Of course Gordon could have learned of such things
01:16:20from his visit to the laboratory.
01:16:23What about Lady Horton?
01:16:25She died long before Gordon went to that laboratory.
01:16:28Are we to believe that he really knew how to poison those grapes himself?
01:16:34What grapes?
01:16:39Why, the grapes he sent from his funhouse.
01:16:44You took them to Lydia yourself, didn't you, Bridget?
01:16:48Yes.
01:16:50So I did. Wasn't aware you knew that, Miss Wynfleet.
01:16:53You must tell me what else you know.
01:16:58MUSIC
01:17:11Why so silent, Miss Wynfleet?
01:17:14I'm waiting to hear the rest.
01:17:17I don't know any more.
01:17:19I don't really know anything.
01:17:22It's all just speculation.
01:17:24Probably quite foolish.
01:17:26Foolish? Oh, no, you were never foolish.
01:17:29You're quite clever.
01:17:31In fact, maybe almost as clever as the killer.
01:17:36I don't think you realise what you're saying.
01:17:39You look foolish enough, all right, proper Miss Wynfleet.
01:17:42In her proper little gloves.
01:17:44You wear them everywhere, don't you?
01:17:46Bridget, you must stop this.
01:17:48Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
01:17:51oh, fat white woman whom nobody loves?
01:17:54Where did I hear that?
01:17:56I can't remember that it fits you perfectly
01:17:59because nobody does love you, Miss Wynfleet.
01:18:02Nobody does and nobody ever will.
01:18:04Please. You think Gordon did, but you're wrong.
01:18:07You never had him, you never had anyone or anything.
01:18:10Except that cleverness of yours.
01:18:15And that cleverness could get you into trouble.
01:18:19Couldn't it, Miss Wynfleet?
01:18:22Miss Wynfleet.
01:18:52Oh!
01:19:10Bridget!
01:19:13Bridget!
01:19:15Bridget! You almost made it, didn't you?
01:19:18Get down, or you'll already get Easter peeled, like everybody else!
01:19:22Ha, ha, ha!
01:19:29Ah!
01:19:33Ah!
01:19:46I say!
01:19:53What's she doing to Miss Wynfleet?
01:19:56She's admitted everything?
01:19:58Admitted it, yes, Miss,
01:20:00and she wouldn't be satisfied till she'd given us every detail.
01:20:04Yes, it was awful. She was so proud of her cleverness.
01:20:07I know. I tried to play on that to get a confession out of her
01:20:11and she was going to tell me.
01:20:14Just before killing me.
01:20:17That was to be your final crime, Gordon, killing me,
01:20:20because I was leaving you.
01:20:25That's why she asked you to meet her in the meadow at midday, I suppose.
01:20:29You'd be found there with my body.
01:20:36And your dagger.
01:20:40But how on earth did she get hold of my dagger?
01:20:43Oh, she stole it this morning off the table.
01:20:45It still had your fingerprints on it.
01:20:48Of course.
01:20:50Her proper little gloves.
01:20:52Poor Honoria, those rages of hers.
01:20:55Do you know, she once killed her own pet canary,
01:20:59just because it pecked her.
01:21:01I simply couldn't feel the same about her after that.
01:21:05Then it was you that broke off the engagement.
01:21:08I told you how tender-hearted he is.
01:21:11When you reported to me that story about the canary,
01:21:14I knew Miss Wynfleet must be lying.
01:21:17To make Gordon look guilty.
01:21:19Smart girl.
01:21:21It's really just a matter of knowing a little about human nature, Luke.
01:21:26Perhaps that's why your famous computer couldn't come up with a right answer.
01:21:32No, don't blame the computer.
01:21:34I didn't programme Miss Wynfleet as a suspect.
01:21:37Oh, don't feel badly about it, Mr... Williams.
01:21:41No, she even took me in.
01:21:43Had me convinced that the Almighty was wreaking vengeance on all my enemies.
01:21:48That isn't altogether a bad theory.
01:21:51But what I don't understand is this.
01:21:54How did my roles come to be identified as the car that bowled over Miss Fullerton?
01:21:59Because I had the roles on Derby Day.
01:22:02That's why I knew it couldn't be you, Gordon.
01:22:05And you bashed the fender.
01:22:07Miss Wynfleet knew Miss Fullerton was on to her,
01:22:10so she followed her to London.
01:22:13She saw her chance and pushed Miss Fullerton under a passing car.
01:22:17The driver of the car failed to stop,
01:22:20so she simply gave your licence number to a man in the crowd.
01:22:24But how did she manage all the other murders?
01:22:28Some are obvious, but what about Humblebee, for example?
01:22:32Now, when Humblebee went to visit her,
01:22:34Miss Wynfleet ran her scissors into his right hand
01:22:38and then insisted on bandaging him.
01:22:40But first she infected the bandage with discharge from Wonky Poo's ear.
01:22:48Good Lord.
01:22:51I feel forgiven, eh?
01:22:57And the others?
01:23:00She, uh...
01:23:02She killed Lydia Horton with garden spray on the grapes,
01:23:06little by little.
01:23:08And then the night that Amy came home from London,
01:23:11Miss Wynfleet brought her a nice cup of tea,
01:23:16loaded with heroin.
01:23:21Imagine the old witch doing all that
01:23:23just because his lordship guiltied her so long ago,
01:23:26all for revenge.
01:23:28Revenge?
01:23:29Yes.
01:23:30Her one master passion swallowed up the rest.
01:23:34Eh?
01:23:35Beg your pardon, sir?
01:23:36Uh, Essay on Man, epistle 2.
01:23:39Oh, yes.
01:23:41But it is hard to believe that so much love
01:23:45could turn into so much hate.
01:23:48Is it?
01:23:52Excuse me.
01:23:54I must go to court.
01:23:59Oh.
01:24:09I still like your squad car.
01:24:17We have returned to the use of the bicycle
01:24:20in the interest of economy, environment,
01:24:23and if I may say so, sir,
01:24:26efficient policing.
01:24:45Gordon's already hard at work on his next series of articles.
01:24:49Famous female criminals throughout the ages.
01:24:54He says he's far too busy a man for marriage anyway.
01:24:59Good.
01:25:01Does that mean you're going with me?
01:25:06How could I possibly go off with a man
01:25:09who thinks me capable of murder?
01:25:11And loves you anyway.
01:25:14I guess I just couldn't believe that I could get that lucky
01:25:18to have what I want,
01:25:20to have you.
01:25:22Too improbable for you?
01:25:25Well, at least you know the worst about me.
01:25:28That ought to count for something.
01:25:30Do I?
01:25:32No more questions, no more curiosities.
01:25:36All right.
01:25:38Where did you go on derby day?
01:25:43I went to see Johnny.
01:25:45Johnny? You're kidding.
01:25:47I thought he was no good. I thought he jilted you.
01:25:49He was, he did. I just wanted to be sure, that's all.
01:25:54I took one look at him and I realised what an idiot I'd been and I left.
01:26:04I seem to have a habit of choosing the wrong man, haven't I?
01:26:11Hello, you two.
01:26:13Thought I'd just pop by, make sure you were still alive.
01:26:16I hope so.
01:26:17Splendid.
01:26:18Then we've just got time to make the Royal Ascot meeting.
01:26:20If we hurry.
01:26:21Jimmy, Ascot's not for another week.
01:26:23Quite.
01:26:24Just enough time for you to work out who's going to win the gold cup.
01:26:28Well, are you coming?
01:26:31Well, are we?
01:26:37Let me rephrase the question.
01:26:39Will you marry me?
01:26:48There's one thing I think you should know.
01:26:51I made Gordon cut me out of his will.
01:26:54Now I know the worst about you.
01:27:47You